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Sean Connery Stages the Great Train Robbery
Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on Nov 12, 2018
Sean Connery as Edward Pierce.
In addition to writing bestselling novels like Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton also found time to moonlight as a film director. One of his most successful efforts was The Great Train Robbery (1978), based on his own popular novel--which w read more
Pic of the Day: “The Great Train Robbery” revisited
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Jun 20, 2014
Today we take another regretfully poor-quality look at the Sheriff of Cochise episode “The Great Train Robbery” (nice title originality there, guys). It was first broadcast on October 5, 1956. Mean, mean train robber Stark is not taking any guff from the hapless conductor (Jess Kirkpatri read more
The Great Train Robbery (1903) A Silent Film Review
Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on Nov 3, 2013
One of the earliest blockbusters, this film is a legend in the history of cinema. But how does it hold up (no pun intended) for the modern viewer? The story involves the execution of a daring train robbery and the subsequent posse pursuit. Exciting stuff or a creaky relic? Robbing the train. Anoth read more
Pic of the Day: “The Great Train Robbery” revisited (2)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Oct 10, 2013
Today’s pic takes another look at “The Great Train Robbery,” not the ground-breaking film short of 1903 but the episode of Sheriff of Cochise that first aired just over 57 years ago today – October 5, 1956. Bad guy Stark is robbing this train and he wants you to know it. Coc read more
Pic of the Day: “The Great Train Robbery” revisited (1)
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on Mar 7, 2013
The pic for today is another look at Stark, the crazed but rather dapper-looking train robber of “The Great Train Robbery,” the episode of Sheriff of Cochise that was first broadcast on October 5, 1956. I am not sure who the actors portraying his two cohorts in crime are. This episode w read more
Review: The Great Train Robbery (1903) (1)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Dec 17, 2012
The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American Western film written, produced, and directed by Edwin S. Porter. The story opens with two masked bandits breaking into a railroad telegraph office, where they force the operator at gunpoint to stop the train at the station’s water tan. When the train read more
Review: The Great Train Robbery (1903) (2)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Dec 17, 2012
The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American Western film written, produced, and directed by Edwin S. Porter. The story opens with two masked bandits breaking into a railroad telegraph office, where they force the operator at gunpoint to stop the train at the station’s water tan. When the train read more
Pic of the Day: “The Great Train Robbery”
The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on May 4, 2012
Today we finally get a look at Timothy in the Sheriff of Cochise episode “The Great Train Robbery,” first broadcast on October 5, 1956. He portrays Stark, the nasty leader of a gang of thieves who pull off said robbery. As we all know, however, justice prevails (at least on television in read more
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on Apr 21, 2012
Edwin S. Porter’s seminal The Great Train Robbery, made for the Edison Manufacturing Company in 1903. This one was a game changer. Watch to find out why. Edison Manufacturing CompanyEdwin S. PorterThe Great Train Robbery read more
Edwin S. Porter and “The Great Train Robbery”
Curtains Posted by Janelle Vreeland on Jan 16, 2012
In the words of Adolph Zukor, Edwin S. Porter was more of an artistic mechanic than a dramatic artist. This glimpse into the personality and mind of Porter tells us much about the man behind one of the most famous silent films of all time -- “The Great Train Robbery.”
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