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The First Great Train Robbery

1978

Michael Crichton

Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Peter Butterworth ...

6.5

2,895

Adventure Sutherland and Connery wish to rob a moving train's safe in Victorian England. They need wax impressions of keys, coffins, dead cats, and a great deal of planning in order to pull it off.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Crichton is after a giggly quality as if it's being told as a pub yarn"	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Crichton's films drag in dialog bouts, but triumph when action takes over."	NEU
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"The Great Train Robbery is classy entertainment of the sort I associate exclusively with movies."	POS
United States	Pauline Kael The New Yorker	"There's a total absence of personal obsession - even moviemaking obsession - in the way Crichton works; he never excites us emotionally or imaginatively, but the film has a satisfying, tame luxuriousness"	NEU
United Kingdom	Time Out	"The characters stay largely undeveloped, while - despite superficially peculiar features - the robbery is stripped of the ingenious exposition of the novel to become just another heist"	NEU

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