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The Big Train Robbery

Date released

16 Oct 1961

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1689

NoS ID

024318

Story no

6 / 6

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Big Train Robbery. DESCRIPTION: Junee, a town in New South Wales, knows all about bandits. While celebrating its 75th birthday, they revived memories of the rugged past with a...

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Early Cinema: Primitives and Pioneers. Vols. 1 & 2 (1896)

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 190 minutes), £19.99

A total of 59 films from the pre-1919 era of cinema. Volume 1 has a collection of 13 shorts by the Lumiere brothers. With accompanying music and commentary. Tinted. Volume 2 has a large selection from...

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Glorification of Great Train Robbery (1988)

Genre

Interview

Chris Moncrieff, one of the detectives involved in the case, on the glorification of the Great Train Robbery 25 years ago today. He says the films, books and musical about it should be boycotted. For AM...

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Ocean Sound This Week No.30: Programme 30 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

OCEAN SOUND THIS WEEK NO. 30 Programme 30 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 17 May 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER. TRACK...

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They stole a train (1988)

On 8th August 1963, fifteen men robbed the night mail train from Glasgow to London. They stole two and a half million pounds. The crime was dubbed the ‘Great Train Robbery’. This documentary traces the...

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Nightline (1988)

Genre

Interview

Interview with accomplice in the Great Train Robbery, Buster Edwards, on Nightline, on the 25th anniversary of the robbery. As a film of his life is about to be released (Buster). On why people are still so...

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Train robbery at O’Rourkes Bridge, Northern Ireland (1984)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male speaker on a train robbery in Northern Ireland, on the Belfast-to-Dublin train. The train was stopped at O’Rourkes Bridge, then taken one-and-a-half miles to Mount Pleasant, south of the...

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Train robber Buster Edwards comments on a film about his life (1988)

Genre

Interview

Accomplice to the Great Train Robbery, Buster Edwards, on how it felt doing the robbery and being in jail, and the biopic on his life about to be released (Buster) 25 years to the day since the robbery....

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Ronnie Biggs on Great Train Robbery (1988)

Genre

Interview

Interview with criminal Ronnie Biggs, in Brazil. He talks about the Great Train Robbery in 1963 and the assault on train driver Jack Mills. He also comments on his children and says they should keep away...

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Ronnie Biggs on Great Train Robbery (1983)

Genre

Interview

Ronald (Ronnie) Biggs, one of the robbers involved in the Great Train Robbery of 1963, recalls the event. He has a regular girlfriend now, is not in touch with his former wife, and stays in Brazil. He says...

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