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| | Great Train Robbery Outside Verdi Nevada, November 5, 1870 |
 | | The first train robbery in the United States occurred near Seymour, Indiana. | | | According to the report, $41,600 in gold coin was taken and after a two state chase they were all caught, tried, and convicted. | | | His attorney, however, still mantained his contention of the lack of jurisdiction, and produced authorities to support his argument. |
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| | Ben Kilpatrick and the last full sized train robbery in Texas, Sanderson, 1912. |
| | His downfall was the inability to secure a large amount of funds from this series of robberies, necessitating further robberies. | | | Appearing in Court on July 3, 1911, the case against him was dismissed for lack of evidence. | | | Hobeck refers to one of the robbers who attempted the robbery near Sanderson in 1912. |
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http://www.texasescapes.com/FEATURES/Arthur_Soule/Ben_Kilpatrick_Texas_train_robberies.htm
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| | The Trade of Train Robbery--Outlaw |
| | With all the murders the law could prove on Chris Evans, it could not hang him, and he is still in the prison at Folsom, a life prisoner, with George Sontag, who, after an unsuccessful attempt at breaking jail, finally went on the witness stand and testified against his former partner in crime. | | | The gang did not long outlast the chief's misadventure. | | | This was before the guerrillas left without employment by the end of the Civil War took to train robbery and made it popular. |
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| | Train robbed in Flatonia, Texas - Lone Star Diary |
| | The leader of the Outlaw gang that committed the train robbery was my great-great grandfather Bill Whitley. | | | The Southern Pacific offers $250 and the United States government $200, which will make a total of $1950. | | | I have his pistol, passed down to me by my grandfather (his grandson), which was used in all of his robberies. |
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http://www.montgomerystudio.com/lonestar/lsd_pg31.htm
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| | The Wilcox Train Robbery |
| | Within 24 hours, nearly 100 possemen were out chasing the train robbers. | | | Wyoming's Governor DeForest Richards also dispatched Company C of the state militia. | | | The June 2, 1899, Wilcox holdup would become one of the West's most famous train robberies. |
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http://historynet.com/we/blwilcox_train_robbery
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| | Edison Motion Picture and Sound Recordings |
| | Scene 4 -- The fight on the tender. | | | Just before she pulls out they stealthily board the train between the express car and the tender. | | | Two masked robbers enter and compel the operator to set the `signal block' to stop the approaching train, also making him write a fictitious order to the engineer to take water at this station.... |
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http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/gtr.html
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| | BBC - Crime Case Closed - Great Train Robbery |
| | When they finally appeared in court, only one of the gang ever pleaded guilty. | | | BBC - Crime Case Closed - Great Train Robbery | | | This was until May 2001, when he returned to England, only to be arrested on arrival and forced to serve his original 25 years in Belmarsh Prison. |
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| | Today in History: October 6 |
| | 1866: The first known train robbery in the United States took place." /> | | | A wave of train robberies followed the Seymour case. | | | As in the Seymour case, detectives from the Pinkerton National Detective Agency quickly identified the criminals. |
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| | Edwin S. Porter, The Great Train Robbery (1903) |
| | The Library of Congress's Great Train Robbery Files, available in MPEG and Quicktime formats. | | | The gang stopped the Union Pacific's No. 3 train forced the conductor to uncouple the passenger cars from the rest of the train, and then blew up the mail car's safe to excape with $5,000 in cash. | | | Ed Wyatt's "Was The Great Train Robbery Really The First Western? |
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http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/porterques.html
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| | Caney Train Robbery |
| | At the present writing, the amount secured by the robbers has not been made public. | | | The fireman and engineer were then compelled to cut off the engine and baggage car, and proceed a half mile further. | | | The train had gone a short but a short distance, when he proceeded to climb over the tender toward the engine. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Quotes & Trivia DVD: The First Great Train Robbery [1978] |
| | At no point in the case did anyone escape from custody. | | | None of the criminals was spotted at once; it was months before the railway conceded that the crime must have occurred on the train. | | | The train driver was counting telegraph poles to measure the speed. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/dvd/B000059L8L/quotes
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| | The Great Train Robbery : A Novel - Hotel Resource Book Store |
| | The story is reconstructed from actual court testimony of probably one of the best documented court cases in Brittish history. | | | This is the suspenseful, creative story of the robbery of great train, during an age when the railroad was still new enough to be seen as something of a mircale of human invention. | | | For this reason the Great Train Robbery is for me my favorite Crichton work, even though it may lack the polish of Jurassic Park or Congo or one of his more recent books. |
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http://www.hotelresource.com/bookstore/asinsearch_0679448950.html
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| | The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966) |
| | This doesn't matter too much as it does eventually break away into a more free-flowing chase at the end. | | | However the new Minister for Education gives them a massive grant instead - although his Government don't know that he is helping his mistress to set back up the criminal exploits of the school. | | | Trouble starts though, when the school is resituated in a building where train robbers have hidden their loot. |
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http://us.imdb.com/Title?0060476
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| | The First Great Train Robbery (1978) |
| | Copyright © Moovy Buff All rights reserved - Privacy Policy and Disclaimer | | | Terrific suspense thriller about the first train robbery in England in 1855. | | | Where to buy The First Great Train Robbery (1978) |
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http://www.moovybuff.co.uk/products/the-first-great-train-robbery-1978.htm
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| | Train robbery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In a train robbery, the first goal was to steal any money being delivered as cargo. | | | If the outlaw was unsatisfied with the goods, passengers of the train's carriages (generally unarmed) would be held at gunpoint and made to hand over any valuables they were carrying (usually jewelry or currency). | | | Usually, they would either board the train and wait for a good time to initiate the heist, or they would stop / derail the train and then begin the holdup. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_robbery
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| | The bandits then compel the engineer to bring the train to a stop. | | | Just before she pulls out they stealthily board the train between the express car and the tender. | | | While two of the bandits have been robbing the mail car, two others climb over the tender. |
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| | Great train robbery (1963) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Great Train Robbery was the name given to a train robbery that was committed on August 8, 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom. | | | In May 2001 Biggs, aged 71, returned to Britain. | | | The robbery was investigated by Detective Chief Superintendent Jack Slipper of the Metropolitan Police (widely known in the Press as "Slipper of the Yard"), who became so involved with its aftermath that he continued to hunt down many of the escaped robbers in retirement. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Train_Robbery_of_1963
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| | Orbital Reviews: The Great Train Robbery (1903) |
| | The Edison Manufacturing Company, one of the most powerful early film companies in the world, largely because of Edison's legal defenses of his patents, released the twelve-minute short The Great Train Robbery in the United States in 1903, though it played worldwide to great success. | | | The Great Train Robbery became the most successful and important film of the early cinema, which specifically refers to the period before the development of the feature film and before narrative works became more common. | | | The Great Train Robbery helped prove the appeal of the burgeoning new media and also established many of the editing techniques and camera setups that became common in later films. |
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http://www.orbitalreviews.com/pages/full/GreatTrainRobbery1903.shtml
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| | The Belsano Job - robbery & murder on C&I RailRoad |
| | The crime was not reported until the train arrived in Colver, and immediately the State Police went into action setting up roadblocks and forming search parties to secure the area for the killers and the loot. | | | The State Police also sent circulars describing the crime to police departments in other states. | | | Nelson also worked in the engine of C&I trains, I believe as engineer also. |
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http://www.nantyglo.com/belsanojob.htm
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| | The Observer Cash The great train ticket robbery |
| | However, each train operator has its own ticket types (a search on the trainline.com typically lists eight types a search) and its own travel restrictions on these ticket types. | | | In some cases, flying costs only a pound or two more than taking the train, and is often more than twice as fast - although of course for some people airport transfers are a consideration, as well as the impact on the environment. | | | Where operators share a route, some tickets (typically the standard open tickets) are valid with any operator, whereas others (typically the cheaper tickets that require advanced bookings) will only be available with a specific operator on a specific train. |
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| | The Great Train Robbery (1903) |
| | One of the gun-wielding bandits compels everyone to keep their hands up. | | | The desperadoes stealthily sneak on board the train (between the tender, the car attached to the steam locomotive that carries fuel and water, and the express mail car) just before it pulls away. | | | The frightened telegraph operator delivers the note with the fictitious order to the conductor. |
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| | The Last Full-sized Train Robbery in Texas, Sanderson, 1912. |
| | He did kill some people, but technically it was the train robbery that gave him the death penalty. | | | One would assume that Ketchum's failure was a topic of conversation in the barbershop there for many years. | | | The robbers had a member of the train crew order the express agent to open the door and this was done. |
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http://www.texasescapes.com/FEATURES/Last_fullsized_train_robbery_Texas/train_robbery.htm
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| | The Last Train Robbery - Sanderson, Terrell County |
| | They were 'TRAIN ROBBERS.' The one in front took charge of the engine crew and ordered them to drive to Baxters Curve. | | | The passenger cars were left on the bridge, while the train robbers took the engine crew and Express Messenger (Doug Trousdale) and proceeded to a point one mile ahead where horses were waiting. | | | The other one came to the baggage car bringing the brakeman with him and forced him at gun point to break the train in half. |
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| | James Train Robbery |
| | The locomotive tender and two baggage cars were thrown from the track. | | | The gang robbed the express messenger of cash and relieved the passengers of their watches, cash and jewelry. | | | It was one of the first recorded train robberies west of the Mississipppi and expanded Jesse James and his gang's operations from his specialty of bank holdups to train robbery. |
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| | BBC NEWS England Beds/Bucks/Herts Talk marks Great Train Robbery |
| | Malcolm Fewtrell, the police officer who led Buckinghamshire CID at the time, said: "These were dedicated professional criminals and it was all organised but it could have failed at any time. | | | The cash was taken by lorry 25 miles to Leatherslade Farm. | | | The mastermind behind the Great Train Robbery will mark the 40th anniversary of the heist by returning to the scene of the crime. |
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| | The Wilcox Train Robbery |
| | Kilpatrick was released from prison in 1911 and shortly thereafter attempted to hold up a train in Sanderson, Texas, but the express messenger killed both Kilpatrick and his partner. | | | And then in January 1906, Lay was unexpectedly pardoned and released from the New Mexico Penitentiary -- and evidence suggests that he was actually released earlier, in December 1905. | | | Soon, stolen bank notes began to turn up throughout the West, again proving the gang's ability to disperse, in spite of the numerous posses and agencies chasing after them. |
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| | Train Robbery, 1899 |
| | They were, after all, bank and train robbers constantly looking over their shoulders in hopes of escaping capture by the law or death by a rival. | | | They asked what was on the train, and somebody said there were two cars of soldiers on the train. | | | There were two extra cars on the train. |
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http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/cassidy.htm
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| | The Great Train Robbery |
| | Hugh ordered engineer Sidney Bates to stop the train near the south end of the tunnel. | | | Railway regulations required the engineer to test the brakes at the top of the pass by bringing the southbound train to a near stop just north of the tunnel. | | | And they couldn't get the train moved out of the tunnel because of the mangled car. |
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| | Train Robbery |
| | the train, there's some passengers but there's no engine. | | | The man at the back of the train started issuing orders to the other | | | when the trains came or went; however, since there were no more than |
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| | Indiana Historical Marker Celebrations - Marshfield Train Robbery |
| | The annotated text for this marker is available in the marker searchable database. | | | One of earliest U.S. train robberies occurred May 22, 1868 at nearby Marshfield, a refueling and watering stop. | | | Indiana-based Reno Gang operated after the Civil War during a period of unemployment and lawlessness. |
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| | BBC News UK Flashback: The Great Train Robbery |
| | The Great Train Robbery was the most famous heist in an era that made celebrities of some high profile criminals. | | | The audacious nature of the crime - even though driver Jack Mills was coshed with an iron bar - and their flight from justice made them as famous as the Hole in the Wall gang, who decades earlier had become the original Great Train Robbers. | | | Using inside information on the movement of valuables, he assembled a gang to intercept a night train in a quiet part of Buckinghamshire. |
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| | Amazon.com: The Great Train Robbery (1979) : Video |
| | I wish it wasn't, but it is. (Incidentally, Pinewood also did many if not all of the James Bond films...) | | | Due to the fine acting and direction by Michael Crichton, the story, which was based on an actual robbery, was a great success, and was endlessly entertaining. | | | After months of planning, making wax impressions of four keys, effecting a prison break for one of their henchmen necessary to their plan and the escape of Pierce after the fact of the robbery, the robbery was completed without a hitch. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0792835093?v=glance
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| | The Great Train Robbery |
| | Buster Edwards and Jimmy White were caught in 1966 and sentenced to 15 years and 18 years. | | | I went to a solicitor and made a statement of the facts about how we got the money. | | | Fingerprints were found all over the place which gradually led to the arrest of most of those involved. |
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| | The First Known Train Robbery in the U.S. |
| | The First Known Train Robbery in the U.S. %%edit_tab%% | | | The First Known Train Robbery in the U.S. October 6, 1866 | | | Real life robberies inspired "The Great Train Robbery" released in 1903 |
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| | The Great Train Robbery Movie: The Great Train Robbery DVD is available from Bestprices.com |
| | The Great Train Robbery Movie: The Great Train Robbery DVD is available from Bestprices.com | | | From the decadent parties and mansions of the wealthy to the brothels and dog fights of the underclass, THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY is a historical tour de force that culminates in the suspenseful, dangerous climax of this true story. | | | Copyright 1981-2004 Muze Inc. For personal use only. |
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| | After securing all the "valuables," consisting principally of candy and dolls, the robbers uncouple the engine and one car and make their escape just in time to avoid a posse of police who appear on the scene. | | | The results, however, have more than justified all the expenditure. | | | The engineer leaves his engine and proceeds to remove the obstruction on the track. |
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| | The 1924 Robbery at Concrete Bridge Crossing |
| | In 1924, a CandI train out of Rexis bound for Colver was the victim of one of the last great train robberies in the United States. | | | The CandI had a flagstop station at this location, which is why the engineer stopped the train. | | | The concrete bridge that the station was named for does not exist anymore. |
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| | The Great Train Robbery and Other Adventures |
| | Today I was able to purchase a one-way second-class train ticket to Košice, Slovakia, at the Central Train Station, with no real problems, totally in Polish, without even using a phrase book or dictionary for assistance! | | | My friend, Piotr, who works at Energoprojekt, had met me at the Katowice train station on Sunday night; he immediately provided me unlimited use of his mobile phone to call back to the United States to cancel the stolen credit cards and arrange for replacements. | | | We then called Piotr directly from the train and got confirmation he would be at the Katowice station; after that, I started feeling a bit better about things. |
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| | The Great Train Robbery (1903) |
| | (1) The robbers first make the telegraph operator signal that the train stop at this station--they compel him to write a order to have the train stop for water. | | | The final shot of the movie obviously was added to the end of the movie in order to surprise and startle the audiences of the day--and was successful in doing so. | | | It contains many of the elements of the classic hold-up story: a daring robbery involving violence and death, a posse being hastily formed, and the final flight and showdown in the woods. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Great Train Robbery |
| | Crichton uses the testimonies of the participants in the robbery and elaborates upon them expertly, constructing a story in which you are completely immersed from start to finish. | | | For example he devotes a section to inform us that in the 1850s, when the robbery was committed, safes were the most reliable means of preventing theft. | | | My summary is simply that, having read Timeline by the same author, I recommend Crichton as a writer of choice and the Great Train Robbery as a very accomplished example of his work. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/009948241X
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| | The Great Train Robbery |
| | Most startling to many would have been the final scene, in which the leader of the outlaws points his gun directly at the audience and fires. | | | Even though the film is based on an actual train robbery committed by four of Butch Cassady's "Hole In The Wall" Gang, it is possible that the viewers could have been witnessing the real thing. | | | Please visit our friends at The Silent Movie |
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| | Alberta Prairie Railway - Alberta Steam Train Tourist Attraction |
| | At some point during your excursion the train may be brought to a screeching halt. | | | They are known to frequent these parts and on occasion hold up the train. | | | The train leaves Stettler, Alberta, and returns five to six hours later. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Three Complete Novels: The Andromeda Strain, The Terminal Man, and The Great Train Robbery |
| | The Great Train Robbery takes you throughout the mastermind of the criminals who committed the most historic robbery ever known. | | | Edward Pierce charms the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of the century. | | | The planning of the robbery, including and especially obtaining the necessary keys to the safes on board the train, is fascinating, and intricate, and there is plenty of suspense from the unforseen obstacles that crop up along the way. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0517084791?v=glance
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| | Adair, Iowa Train Robbery |
| | The passengers were scared and some were wounded. | | | While the were stealing the money from passengers, Cole told the passengers they had not intended to kill or physically harm anyone. | | | While this was going on inside the train, the gang members outside were shooting their guns into the air to keep the passengers inside the cars. |
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| | Moviefone: Great Train Robbery Movie |
| | Matching Sites From AOL Search: Great Train Robbery | | | Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for The Great Train... | | | The Great Train Robbery (1979): find the latest news, photos and trailers, as well as local showtimes/dvd info at Yahoo! |
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| | Grand Canyon Railway - The Official Site |
| | Each train engine, both steam and diesel, and each train car, from Coach to First Class, has been painstakingly restored to its original state by a staff of mechanics who see their work as more a labor of love than a job. | | | On the train, your crew is no less enthusiastic. | | | And there's even fun recreations of an old fashioned shoot out and a train robbery. |
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| | Varese Sarabande Product Details |
| | Not a CD Club release but available early and at a reduced price. | | | The Great Train Robbery proved to be a radical stylistic departure from the two other films occupying the composer in 1979. | | | The Great Train Robbery, like most of the vast body of Goldsmith’s work, had aged exceptionally well and stands a well remembered and much loved opus. |
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| | The Great Train Robbery |
| | When released in England, this film was titled The First Great Train Robbery, so as not to be confused with Britain's embarrassing 1963 railroad heist. | | | Filmed in Ireland, The Great Train Robbery was dedicated to the memory of its director of photography, Geoffrey Unsworth, who died shortly after the production wrapped. | | | Director Michael Crichton adapted the story from his own, more-clinical novel on the same subject. |
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