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AKA:
First Great Train Robbery, The
This is a hybrid SACD, playable on all regular CD players but offers additional features and fidelity to those with SACD players.
The Great Train Robbery is a Jerry Goldsmith classic. In the film directed by Michael Crichton (and based on his own book), Sean Connery played Edward Pierce, an ingenious and daring thief who moved between London's richest and most prominent citizens and the dark corners of its criminal underworld with great ease. Donald Sutherland plays Robert Agar, a dexterous screwsman (a specialist in keys and safecracking) always awaiting the next big job. Lesley-Anne Down is Brigid Lawson, Pierce's beautiful but nefarious girlfriend, prepared to aid and abet at any opportunity.
To score this grand and stylish adventure, Crichton sought his trusted friend Jerry Goldsmith. The Great Train Robbery proved to be a radical stylistic departure from the two other films occupying the composer in 1979. As it was, the tortured and gritty Alien could not have contrasted more with the romantic and heroic vision of the future that Goldsmith captured in his score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. But when you add The Great Train Robbery to the pair of science fiction opposites, it reemphasizes the extreme extents that the composer's stylistic range encompasses. To this day, all three scores from 1979 remain among Goldsmith's most loved and well-remembered offerings.
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