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Connery Gene Shalit, my former, favorite, film fanatic, found the Great Train Robbery to be a ‘wpnderquite wonderful,’ ful, movie. His peers’ dubbed it the Critic’s Choice: A wonderful, quite wonderful, mistake, knowledgeable Thespians.
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hurts- not-so-great The Not-So-Great-Train Robbery playing at the Lyric has all the elements of a bawdy Victorian heist: frolic, farce and flair. Amidst lace collars and cuffs are Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland as two loveable, lusting, rogues who plan to plun-
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Sean Connery as charmer Edward Pierce, notorious John alias Simms, is a combination of James Bond, Robin and conman Henry Gondorf from the Sting. He’s suave, but stale. smooth, Connery’s portrayal stifled and slowed the pace, but Donald Sutherland, as his bumbling muttonchopped sidekick, Agar added the pizazz and sparkle Connery lacked. He almost kills himself training for a 75-second dash from a stationary train to‘the London Bridge railway station to make wax impressions of the two keys, but Sutherland grins and says nonchalantly .“I always knew I could do it.” The first two keys are attained through skill and cunning with the aid of vivacious Miriam making
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the plot pleasureable. Leslie Anne Down completes the charming trio as the classic English wench catering to Connery’s dirty work and pleasures at the same time. Each of her scenes is timed with slapstick precision, but the lady really doesn’t get a chance to strut her stuff. The director’s mistake is the audience’s misfortune. The Great Train Robbery is full of double entendres, highjinks, hilarity, and swashbuckling scenes. In a suspenseful, scenic Irish sequence as the train whizzes across the meadows and plush greenery, Connery defies bridges and howling winds as he leaps from boxcar to boxcar atop of the train, to irritated accomplice Sutherland awaiting in odd attire. The rambling rogue ruins his clothes and asks Sutherland for his.
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Mendelson’s colorful costumes and Donald Sutherland’s delightful buffoonery saved this blunder. If it hadn’t been for 007’s acting sabotage, the Great Train Robbery could have stayed on the right track. Coral Andrews
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It’s Sutherland at his best as he replies: “You make me lie on a dead cat and dress me in green make-up. Oh no bloody hell. No bloody hell.” ’ Connery gets his wish. Sounds odd? It’s the how of the heist and when court asks Connery why he conceived and-executed this scandalous crime he merely mockingly replies: “I needed the money.” Connery needed the
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money but the Great Train Robbery did not need his bland characterization and the audience didn’t need the yo-yo pace. Director Micheal Crichton’s novel lost some: thing in its screen translation, scriptwise, but Geoffrey Unsworth’s creative cinematography, Anthony
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