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Forgotten Irish movies.
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Del Monte will remember this one!
The First Great Train Robbery (1978) starring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley Anne Down and directed by Michael Crichton who would later direct Jurassic Park.
A big deal at the time, the story revolved around a train robbery between London Bridge and Folkestone in 1855. Heuston Station was transformed into London Bridge Station of the time, and I think, Cork station was Folkestone.
The railway scenes were shot on the now closed Athlone to Mullingar line, the film company paying for the restoration of 184, one of the steam loco owned by the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, along with its sister 186 which double headed the train and they also built an entire train of mocked up period coaches.
Connery performed his own stunts in the film which included a good bit of carriage roof walking and ducking under bridges, he slipped and nearly fell off at one stage
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.explicit.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.EXUmZ3a4xjt6EcxkJYUSdgHaF7%26pid%3DApi&f=1
A great yarn, well worth a few hours if you see it on the telly.
The mock up coaches were still dumped in Bray station in 1982, I think they were sold as hen houses, maybe some of them still exist.
Alas poor old 184 is languishing, awaiting another film saviour, maybe they'll do a remake!
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interlocked wrote: »Del Monte will remember this one!
The First Great Train Robbery (1978) starring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley Anne Down and directed by Michael Crichton who would later direct Jurassic Park.
Yes, I remember the movie alright but more for the 24 year-old Lesley-Anne Down - than some clapped out old steam engine.
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Hangdogroad wrote: »Two films from the late 90s about Irish immigrants in New York. Gold In The Streets with a young Aidan Gillen.
2×4 directed by and starting Jimmy Smallhorne. That got the Blizzard Of Odd treatment from Colin Murphy. There was a gay sex scene in it and Murphy memorably described it as looking like "seeing Aslan shagging each other"
Is that 2x4 also know as brothers of the board? Or something with sheetrock in the title?
Might be getting mixed up here, vaguely knew Jimmy Smallhorne from the Irish Theatre in the Bronx & to my shame have never seen that film
Never heard of the other one either which is strange considering I spent the whole of the 90's in NY, will have to check both of these out.
Great thread btw
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interlocked wrote: »Del Monte will remember this one!
The First Great Train Robbery (1978) starring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley Anne Down and directed by Michael Crichton who would later direct Jurassic Park.
A big deal at the time, the story revolved around a train robbery between London Bridge and Folkestone in 1855. Heuston Station was transformed into London Bridge Station of the time, and I think, Cork station was Folkestone.
The railway scenes were shot on the now closed Athlone to Mullingar line, the film company paying for the restoration of 184, one of the steam loco owned by the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland, along with its sister 186 which double headed the train and they also built an entire train of mocked up period coaches.
Connery performed his own stunts in the film which included a good bit of carriage roof walking and ducking under bridges, he slipped and nearly fell off at one stage
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.explicit.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.EXUmZ3a4xjt6EcxkJYUSdgHaF7%26pid%3DApi&f=1
A great yarn, well worth a few hours if you see it on the telly.
The mock up coaches were still dumped in Bray station in 1982, I think they were sold as hen houses, maybe some of them still exist.
Alas poor old 184 is languishing, awaiting another film saviour, maybe they'll do a remake!
Crichton wrote Jurassic Park, Congo and Coma, as well as Westworld, Spielberg directed Jurrassic park0 -
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Vinnie Jones hunts a 2000 year old re-animated bogman.
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RandomViewer wrote: »Channel 4 did a season of Connery films about 25 years ago, seen it then and still remember how awful it was, funny how bad movies stick in your head longer than reasonably passable ones
Some things can never be unseen
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