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THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
January 15, 2015  | By David Bianculli  | 1 comment

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

The first movie made with this title was in 1903, from the Edison company, directed by Edwin S. Porter, with its famous final shot of a bad guy pointing his gun directly at the audience. (My Rowan University film students know it well – at least after taking my Introduction to Film course.) But this particular movie is a comedy thriller, made 75 years later, and written and directed by Michael Crichton, whose prolific and fertile imagination has given us Westworld, Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, and even TV’s ER. Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland play the dashing men who scheme to rob a shipment of gold from a moving train in Victorian England – and Lesley-Anne Down, from Upstairs, Downstairs, steals the show as their very vital female accomplice. Lots of fun – and, like everything Crichton writes, very, very smart.

 
 
 
 
 
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Bill Graham
Great - send me an email in the 16th for a movie that showed on the 15th, or are you a year ahead of yourself?
Jan 16, 2015   |  Reply
 
 
 
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