The First Great Train Robbery

Steam engine locomotive, which is first used for the filming of scenes with the train were not powerful enough to pull a part. A diesel locomotive was disguised as a boxcar and used as additional traction.

During the filming of scenes with the train of the Director hair had already caught fire from sparks flying from the furnace of a steam locomotive.

Michael Crichton on the first stage of filming was not the best relationship with his team. Then he ordered a copy of his previous tape "Coma" (1978) and showed it to all members of the crew. Only then the team decided that it directs a really good Director.

Sean Connery personally checked the speed of the train on its roof. It was assumed that speed was to be 35 miles per hour

The film "the Great train robbery" is based on a real train robbery that occurred in 1855. The crime was committed by four robbers, among whom two worked at the train station. Their names were pierce, Agar, Burgess and Tester were the last two, the guard and the clerk at the train station.

In England the film was released under the title "the First great train robbery" ("The First Great Train Robbery"). It is not a coincidence — Britain called "great train robbery" was known for a very different incident that occurred in 1963.

The second bridge, under which passes a pier on top of a train, has a metal design, which could not be in 1855.

Folkestone railway line has always had a dual track.

High platform that reaches the level of the doors of the train were not used in the British stations until 1870.

Anachronism: Brahms ' Variations and theme by Haydn, who perform on their piano Elizabeth and Emilia, they could not fulfill in 1855. A work by Haydn was written between 1870-1873 year.

If you look carefully, it is easy to see that the four keys that are so hard and ingenuity were taken by Pierce and his assistants, actually two pairs of identical keys. And clear of any locksmith to make duplicates of such keys do not need such complex manipulations with their prints. It was enough to make a mold of just one side of the key.

When the wife of Sean Connery Micheline saw a movie scene on the train roof, she was furious because Shawn was doing all these scenes without a stunt double and put her life in such danger.

This is the last film of actors Andre Morella (referee) and Peter Butterworth (Putnam).

The film is dedicated to the memory of the operator Geoffrey Unsworth, who died shortly after filming. The dedication reads as follows — "my Friends have lost him."

"The great train robbery" was named best film of the year at the ceremony of awarding the annual "detective" to award them. Edgar Allan PoE.

The role of bright-eyed Willy was played one of the leading dancers of British ballet, Wayne Sleep of The Royal Ballet Company. All of his stunts he did himself, including the escape from prison of Newgate, when he climbed over the prison wall with a huge risk to fall and injure yourself.

The dog-the pied Piper, which starred in two movie scenes, one in Ireland, when the dog cut in front of the house of Trent, another, scene a rat fights, in the Studio "Pinewood" in England. In order to avoid six-month quarantine, which is required by law between England and Ireland for the transport of animals, the Terrier was smuggled across the Irish sea.

During the filming at the train station in Dublin at the diesel locomotive has leaked fuel and a spark, which threw the locomotive, rolling on the same rails, ignited the spilled fuel. In the end, for a short time within the station broke strong fire.