The Great Attack on the Golden Train, with Sean Connery, to be (re)watched this evening on Arte

The last feature film broadcast by Channel 7 in 2024 is “a ‘little classic’ to absolutely rediscover”.

The Great Gold Train Attack by Michael Crichton, returns to television, and Première recommends it. This classic heist film was released in 2018 in a restored version. The Scottish actor plays Edward Pierce, a skilled thief who decided in 1855 to rob the train carrying gold bars intended to pay the English soldiers fighting in Crimea.

At the end of the 1970s, Sean Connery left the role of James Bond to Roger Moore, but he did not give up action scenes: it was he who performed the famous stunt on the roof of the train. At his side, Donald Sutherland is also having a blast rehearsing the heist down to the second in order to be imperturbable on the big day. Also take a listen to the music of Jerry Goldsmith: inspired in particular by a classic by Mozart, the flagship composer of Star Trek (but also Planet of the Apes Or Alien) signs a very successful score.

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Here is our review, published last month on the occasion of its blu-ray release: “Released in 1978, the fourth film by Michael Crichton (creator of Westworld and future author of Jurassic Park, young people) brings together Sean Connery, then at the height of his mature glory, and Donald Sutherland, dressed as seductive Victorian scoundrels ready to do anything to get your hands on a safe Not a classy heist film, but a realistic and cold mechanic (the passage on the train is dry which amplifies its spectacularity) with sound. with a maddening score by Jerry Goldsmith The copy of this new Blu-ray edition makes The Great Attack on the Golden Train a “little classic” absolutely worth rediscovering.