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England has had its share of great train robbers, including the gang immortalized in Stanley Baker's "Robbery." But there was, we learn, only one Great Train Robbery, and that was the first one, in 1855. Until one Edward Pierce made off with a shipment of gold being sent to meet the British army's payroll in the Crimea, it was, quite simply, thought impossible to rob a moving train.
The Great Movie Robbery: Directed by Oldrich Lipský, Zdenek Podskalský. With Oldrich Kaiser, Jirí Lábus, Jaroslav Moucka, Jirí Nemecek. The film is essentially a feature-length commercial for an exhibition to mark the 40th anniversary of the nationalisation of the Czech and Slovak respective film industries, to be held at the Prague U Hybernu venue.
Sep 27, 2023 · Update September 27, 2023: This article has been updated with even more great bank robbery movies that are worth checking out. Bank heist movies are a seemingly ever-enduring subgenre, capturing ...
The Great Bank Robbery: Directed by Hy Averback. With Zero Mostel, Kim Novak, Clint Walker, Claude Akins. Three separate plans to rob a top-security bank in the western town of Friendly, Texas, circa 1880.
The Great Train Robbery, American silent western film, released in 1903, that is historically significant for its innovative approach to film editing and narration. The Great Train Robbery is acknowledged as the first narrative film to successfully establish continuity of action (the process of
The Great Train Robbery Set in 1855 Victorian England, a group of petty thieves plan a scheme for the first hold-up of a moving train as they try to steal a shipment of gold bars intended as payroll for the British Army during the Crimean War.
In this telling of the infamous 1950 robbery, James McNally is portrayed as the one gang member who maintains his silence in the face of extreme police pressure. When he is sent up to prison and sees the other gang members letting him take all the heat, he still doesn't come clean to the cops. He feels a loyalty to his best friend, who was also in on the crime. But what will his best friend choose to do?
