All aboard for runaway action and suspense in this riveting masterpiece from writer/director Michael Crichton! Starring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley Anne Down, it's a "spine tingling and suavely performed adventure" (The Hollywood Reporter), base don history's first train robbery. Filmed by Academy Award winning cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth, this "ingenious" and "wonderful" crime caper delivers mile-a-minute thrills and breathtaking excitement.



Connery is Edward Pierce, a master thief who conceived a brilliant plan to steal a fortune in gold bars from a railroad payroll car. But to pull off the most daring heist in history, Pierce must join forces with a safecracker (Sutherland) and his own beautiful girlfriend (Down) in a series of intricately-plotted thefts that will test all of their nerve, camaraderie and larcenous skill.