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The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent Western action film made by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company.It follows a gang of outlaws who hold up and rob a steam train at a station in the American West, flee across mountainous terrain, and are finally defeated by a posse of locals.
The Great Train Robbery was the robbery of £2.61 million [2] (calculated to present-day value of £69 million - or $73,547,750) from a Royal Mail train travelling from Glasgow to London on the West Coast Main Line in the early hours of 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge, Ledburn, near Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, England.
Poster for the 1926 film The Great K & A Train Robbery. Train robberies are a common depiction in Western films and media. The first movie to depict a train robbery was the 1903 silent film The Great Train Robbery, produced by Edison Studios. This 11-minute film depicts a gang of outlaws who rob a train, only to later be hunted down by ...
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The Great Train Robbery is a best-selling 1975 historical novel written by Michael Crichton, his third novel under his own name and his thirteenth novel overall.Originally published in the US by Alfred A. Knopf (then a division of Random House), it was later published by Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery, the 1966 fourth film of the St Trinians film saga; The First Great Train Robbery, a 1978 film, released in the U.S. as The Great Train Robbery, directed by Michael Crichton, based on his novel; Old 587: The Great Train Robbery, a 2000 film that involves the steam locomotive Nickel Plate Road 587
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. English criminal (1929–2013) Ronnie Biggs Buckinghamshire Constabulary mug-shot, 1964 Born Ronald Arthur Biggs (1929-08-08) 8 August 1929 Stockwell, London, England Died 18 December 2013 (2013-12-18) (aged 84) Barnet, London, England Occupation Carpenter Known for Great Train Robbery of ...
The robbery was a year in the planning and involved making sets of duplicate keys from wax impressions for the locks on the safes, and bribing the train's guard, a man called Burgess. [ 12 ] : 210 Crichton, the author of the book and the screenplay, was inspired by Kellow Chesney's 1970 book The Victorian Underworld , which is a comprehensive ...