The First Great Train Robbery

The First Great Train Robbery is a 1979 British film directed by Michael Crichton starring Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Ann Down.

The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton that was based on a real robbery happened on a train in 1855.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == London, 1854, the master thief and gentleman Edward Pierce decides to do the impossible, robbing the heavily guarded gold train. England run war in Crimea and transports for 12,000 pounds of gold each month to the front to pay troops. The gold is in two safes, closed with four locks. In total there are four keys needed. Together with his mistress Miriam, accomplice Barlow and the infamous locks specialist Robert Agar, go to copy the keys Pierce on path. He knows that two bank managers Henry Fowler and Edgar Trent possess a key. The two other keys are located in the offices of the South Eastern Railway on the London Bridge train station.
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The access to the key by Edgar Trent running through the daughter of the last, Elizabeth. Through its comes Pierce found out that the key is hidden in the wine cellar. Using Agar know Pierce to make a copy. Henry Fowler carries the key on a chain around his neck. Pierce finds out that Fowler is a frequent visitor to brothels. He let his mistress Miriam as a prostitute in the brothel record. If Fowler is undressed and he gives the key here, there is supposedly a police raid took place. In all the hustle and bustle, quickly makes Agar a copy of the key. The keys in the offices of the South Eastern Railway are less easy to copy. Agar must be within a certain time oprennen the stairs to the Office, the closed key cabinet unlock waskopie of the keys, create and view a run away. This all before the night watchman has completed its round. If Agar turns out the ' parcours ' practice, that it is impossible to copy the key in time. Someone needs the keys first place accessibly. Pierce decides to hire a contortionist. His eye falls on Clean Willy, which, however, are stuck in the heavily guarded Newgate Prison. After a message from Pierce escapes Clean Willy and creaks the key cabinet. After a nerve-racking burglary know Agar then the remaining keys to copy.

While Pierce and Agar concentrate on the robbery is Clean Willy arrested. He is released on condition that he will spy on Pierce. As Pierce behind comes, let him Clean WIlly strangle by Barlow before that something can reveal to the police. Then there will be more bad news. Initially it was intended that Agar would embed in the wagon with the safe and the stolen gold from the wagon would throw. But on the orders of the police is the wagon on the outside closed. Pierce put on anyway. Agar is gesminkt as someone who died to the cholera and laid in a coffin. The coffin is in the luggage room at the vault put down. Pierce itself travels by train and climbs on the treindak at some point. He then scrambles to the baggage wagon and opens the outside locks of the wagon. When he returns he proves in its coupé to sit under the soot. He knows another coat to find, but that is too small and rips at the armpits. Meanwhile, the robbery well executed. Agar has the gold train using a bribed guard thrown off the train. Miriam captures it up and brings the gold in safety.

Unfortunately, Pierce arrested on the drive. The torn jacket aroused suspicion. He is tried and sentenced to prison. As he is led away to the gevangenwagen he is kissed by a woman from the cheering audience. It is Miriam who thus the key to the handcuffs in the mouth of Pierce pushes. The last know to free himself and escape. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film is based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton which again is based on the true robbery on the train London-Folkstone in 1855. William Pierce (and not Edward, as in the novel and film), together with his accomplices robbed Edward Agar (and not Robert as in the film and novel) and Tester train from 12,000 pounds in gold. Nowadays this would be almost a million in British pounds are. The gold is never found.Crichton made also use of the book for his novel ' The Victorian Underworld ' by Kellow Chesney from 1970. Chesney describes the crime in England in the last half of the 19th century. Crichton based the figure of Clean WIlly on the burglar Williams. A criminal who really lived and managed to escape from Newgate Prison. The only character that has not existence is Miriam, the mistress of Pierce. Crichton also changed the first names of Williiam Pierce and Edward Agar in Edward and Robert respectively. In reality there were four criminals: Pierce, Agar, Tester and Burgess. Tester and Burgess were working for the railways. In reality there was no question of a closed wagon and had Pierce not to walk on the treindak. Both Pierce as Agar was admitted by Burgess. Pierce was also not equal arrested. In reality it took some months before the railways there behind that the theft had taken place in the train. The gang members were overtaken by the betrayal of Agar. The latter was arrested for another crime. When its not medplichtigen its share of the spoils to his mistress were paying, as was agreed, well-known Agar gold theft and named his accomplices. In the book is clearly the lesser of Pierce and Agar suggests Crichton that the last was the mastermind behind the robbery. In reality it was Agar a lot more intelligent than in book and film and responsible for most of the thinking. After his conviction, he was exiled to Australia. He managed to get a rich man to be there. ==Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Although the film is set in London and Kent were most shots made in Ireland. So was filmed in Parliament Square of Trinity College, Dublin and the stations in Cork and Dublin. Michael Crichton worked with an English-Irish crew and resented the slow pace of his staff. The reason for this was that most crew members Crichton Crichton saw as too young and inexperienced. Only after he had shown his last film Coma, grew respect for Crichton as a Director and worked harder.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The shooting of the train robbery were sometimes a nightmare. So summed up the hair by Crichton flame when he made recordings of the steam locomotive and splashing hot coals were him. That steam locomotive was not powerful enough to pull the train. For that reason, a diesel locomotive behind the steam locomotive attached to. Subsequently, the diesel ' disguised ' as freight cars. During the shooting at the station in Dublin had the dieselloc large amounts of diesel oil leaked. When the steam locomotive pulled away, flew there spring sparks and hot coals on the rails and caused a large fire. There were also problems with Sean Connery.He had to over the roofs of the carriages of the moving train walk and did that stunt itself. Crichton left the train at a speed of about 50 kilometers per hour. According to Connery drove the train earlier 90 kilometres per hour. A flying helicopter Later confirmed that Connery was right. The stunt took several days and claimed many of the troubled actor. When his wife Michelle saw the shots later, she was furious at Connery because he had taken such unnecessary risks.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For the role of the contortionist Clean Willy signed Crichton the ballet dancer Wayne Sleep of the Royal Ballet Company. Drag did all his stunts himself. So he climbed the high walls of the building that continue should go for Newgate prison without Lifeblog with large risking their lives. The real Newgate prison is broken down in 1904.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Crichton also did to self-censorship. Henry Fowler In the book goes to bed with a 12 year old girl. He is in the assumption that a Virgin can cure him of his venereal disease. Pierce makes Fowler can go to bed with the girl in a brothel. In the film is the 12 year old girl be replaced by an adult prostitute. The scene in which a dog bites death rats was not included in the British film version, this related to British law on the ban on cruelty to animals. ==Title<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Over the years there have been more trains robbed of large loads of money or gold, but the anywhere on the train from 1855 was the first. Yet this is not the reason the film so hot. Crichton Frist called his book The Great Train Robbery in 1963 great train robbery in discrimination on the mail train was captured in which 2 million pounds. In the press was then spoken by The Great Train Robbery (the great train robbery). ==Prizes<span class="mw-editsection" len="343" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="61" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film won an Edgar in 1980 in the category best feature film