with mission impossible like precision and sean connery and lesley anne down and and donald sutherland pull off the first great train robbery and year before jesse james do it in the american west . of course hold up a train with a dozen mask bandit confederate doesn not equal the near precision complexity that it take to steal gold bullion off a train by three men in stealth . connery be the mastermind of the scheme and he play edward pierce with the usual charm we have come to associate with connery . it be interest how connery get the idea for the heist in your typical englishman club with at least one of the responsible party for the gold in that very room . the other club member know him a a retired industrialist who seem rather well fix and comfortable . if they only know the real source of his comfort . lesley anne down may have give her career performance here a connery girl friend . their scene fairly crackle with witty repartee and sexual innuendo . down be certainly not above use her sex to help in the robbery . in fact the first part of the plan which take about a year in preparation be to get duplicate of four key that unlock the safe on the train where the bullion be transport . she compromise one of the key custodian in a victorian bordello which be the film humor highlight . donald sutherland be the safecracker friend of connery enlist for the caper . he get the dirtiest detail of the caper . in fact the authority get wind of some kind of plan in the work and connery have to make some last minute adjustment to his plan . the adjustment call for sutherland to get into the car in a coffin with a dead cat for odorous effect . what some would not do for money . sutherland handle the whole thing quite well . connery have the dangerous part of the caper which call for him to go from front to back on a move train . those sequence accord to the film of sean connery be shoot in ireland which well represent the look of rural 1855 england . i be stun to learn that connery himself do the stunt . sean admit himself that it be the most dangerous business he ever undertake for any film . what some will do for the sake of art . the first great train robbery be a stylish caper film set in victorian great britain and the film really capture the look and manner of the period . one of sean connery best film and definitely worth a look .