The First Great Train Robbery is a 1979 film directed by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the screenplay based on his novel The Great Train Robbery. In the U.S., the film was also known as The Great Train Robbery. The film starred Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down.
The film features many picturesque characters and scenes of the Victorian era, particularly the criminal mobs of the time. Although set in London and Kent, most of t...
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The First Great Train Robbery is a 1979 film directed by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the screenplay based on his novel The Great Train Robbery. In the U.S., the film was also known as The Great Train Robbery. The film starred Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down.
The film features many picturesque characters and scenes of the Victorian era, particularly the criminal mobs of the time. Although set in London and Kent, most of the filming took place in Ireland. In particular, the final scenes were filmed in Parliament Square of Trinity College, Dublin and Kent Railway Station in Cork.
The music for two pianos, played by the characters Elizabeth (Gabrielle Lloyd) and Emily Trent (Pamela Salem) during the scene in which Pierce (Sean Connery) and Agar (Donald Sutherland) surreptitiously enter the Trent's townhouse in order to obtain an impression of one of the safe keys from the wine cellar, is from the third movement of Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D major, K. 448...
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