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The First Great Train Robbery
The First Great Train Robbery, released in the United States as The Great Train Robbery, is a 1978 British crime 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 Lesley-Anne Down.
Plot.
In 1855 Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), a charismatic member of London's high society, is secretly a master thief. He plans to steal a monthly
highly debated, but occurred somewhere between 1903 and 1910. The first possible appearance of a stunt-double was Frank Hanaway in "The Great Train Robbery", shot in 1903 in Milltown, New Jersey. The first auditable paid stunt was in the 1908 film "The Count of Monte Cristo", with $5 paid by the director to the acrobat who had to jump upside down from a cliff into the sea.
Professional daredevil, Rodman Law, was a trick parachutist known to thousands for climbing the side of