Embassy Pictures
Directed by Peter Yates
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(VHS, Magnetic Video Corporation)
Stanley Baker is the leader of a criminal gang who meticulously plans and carries out a robbery of the Royal Mail train filled with cash. He needs a banking specialist to launder the cash, but first has to break him out of prison. His getaway driver in a former heist has been arrested by a smart Scotland Yard detective who is getting too close for comfort. The train heist finally occurs and goes off without a hitch. When they flee to a nearby hideout in an abandoned airbase to divide up the cash, the police show up by helicopter and they narrowly avoid detection. However, their plans to use getaway cars from a junk yard goes awry leading to a shootout with the police. Baker manages to escape to New York. Meticulous recreation of "the great train robbery" which occurred a few years earlier gets bogged down in the details. Other than an opening car chase, which is quite good, it somehow is boring. Stanley Baker's stone faced performance doesn't help.
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