eShop USA > DVD > The Great Train Robbery
The Great Train Robbery
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $14.98Our Price: $9.99 You Save: $4.99 (33%)Prices subject to change.
Customer Reviews
Rating:  - Donald SUTHERLAND and SEAN CONNERY in a same movie !
Theses two actors was mades to play this MOVIE many years ago !
The quality of their interpretation is exclusive and this story was a true ROBBERY at the END OF THE 19TH CENTURY ! And while that's just a fiction whitch based on unreals facts, this is however a reality ! A VERY GOOD MOVIE !
Rating: - More fun than the book
Before watching this movie, I listened to the recorded book version, which was a little difficult to follow at times due in part to the reader's voice and partly to the dryness of some of the narrative. The movie made it more entertaining, snipping out the tedious details, and getting right to the main events. Of course, the book is meant to be more educational, a non-fictional account of an amazingly planned and executed train robbery, and the enigmatic disappearance of the mastermind once he was caught. The movie fulfills its duty in outlining the events, but makes it fun with entertaining characters and lively scenes. The three main characters: Sean Connery, (the mastermind), Donald Sutherland, (his sidekick), and Leslie Anne Down (Connery's girlfriend and accomplice) so delightfully play their roles, that you root for their successful conniving and contriving. This is a great movie for people who love to compare movies with the books they are made from.
Rating: - Great movie. Makes you want to steal something.
Lot of fun. Wonderful Victorian era sets. Very exciting scenes.
Rating:  - Worthy caper even though it shows its age
I bought this movie because I couldn't find it to rent, and the plot and cast seemed like a guarantee of a great movie to me. I wasn't disappointed but I might have chosen to rent rather than buy if I had been able. Sean Connery in his prime (well, isn't he still in his prime) and Donald Sutherland star in a classic heist movie based on the true story of the world's first robbery from a moving train. They're after a fortune in gold bullion, and must cleverly figure how to steal a set of keys to the safes, get on and off the train safely, etc. It takes place in London in 1855 and the sets and costumes are great. Do they get away with it - I won't say.
It's all very well done but oddly predictable, perhaps because since this movie was made (1972 I believe) a lot of similar movies seem to have come out. And although Donald Sutherland makes a great roguish pickpocket, he'll never pass for English. His accent is closer to the English they speak on the Planet Mars than the English of 19th-century London.
Still, it's worth a look.
Rating: - great movie
The Great Train Robbery, it's about a man named Edward Pierce who teams up with a bunch of crooks to attempt the first robbery from a moving train.The movie was based on a true event that happened in 1855 so there really was a Great Train Robbery.I think this was a great movie,infact a person who doesn't like trains will still like this movie(but I like trains). I especially like the ending when Edward finally robs the train but he doesn't hold a gun to people's heads when doing it.
Featured Listmania!
| |
 |
