The First Great Train Robbery (known in the United States as The Great Train Robbery) is a 1978 British heist comedy film directed by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the screenplay based …

A master criminal aims to rob a train of a large sum of gold. Security is incredibly tight and the task seems an impossible one. However, he has a plan and just the right people to carry it out.

Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down star in this true-life action thriller, based on director/screenwriter Michael Crichton's best-selling novel, about a daring gold heist …

Sean Connery is Edward Pierce, a master thief who conceives a brilliant plan to steal a fortune in gold bars from a railroad payroll car. But to pull off the most daring heist in...

Sean Connery plans to steal a fortune in gold from a railroad payroll car and joins forces with safecracker Donald Sutherland and his own girlfriend, Lesley Anne Down, in a series of …

A master criminal aims to rob a train of a large sum of gold. Security is incredibly tight and the task seems an impossible one. However, he has a plan and just the right people to carry it out."

The film is based on American author Michael Crichton's 1975 novel, The Great Train Robbery. Chichton loosely based his novel on the Great Gold Robbery of 1855, which took place on a …

But to pull off the most daring heist in history, Pierce must join forces with a safecracker (Sutherland) and his own beautiful girlfriend (Down) in a series of intricately plotted thefts that …

Also known as "The First Great Train Robbery." In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.