The First Great Train Robbery


The First Great Train Robbery known in the U.S. as The Great Train Robbery is a 1979 film directed by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the screenplay based on his novel The Great Train Robbery. The film stars Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, and LesleyAnne Down.

Pierces first target is the key held by Edgar Trent Alan Webb. Through painstaking surveillance, Pierce learns that Trent is keen on ratting a blood sport involving betting on dogs killing rats and succeeds in becoming acquainted with him. While visiting the Trent mansion, Pierce begins to court Elizabeth Gabrielle Lloyd, Trents plain, ratheroveragedformarriage daughter, and learns from her that the key is hidden in the houses wine cellar. Pierce and Agar successfully break into Mr. Trents home at night by employing the carriage fakement and make a wax impression of the key.Henry Fowler Malcolm Terris proves an easier target, due to his appetite for prostitutes. Pierce sets the reluctant, annoyed Miriam up as Madame Lucienne, a highclass hooker in an exclusive bordello. Miriam meets Fowler in a suite and asks him to undress, during which process he must remove the key which he wears around his neck. While Fowler is distracted by Miriam, Agar secretly makes an impression of his key. Pierce simulates a police raid on the brothel before Miriam has to have sex with Fowler, which forces Fowler to then flee the scene of the raid to avoid a scandal that would ruin him. ........

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