Sentences with phrase «train robbery»

Crichton's novels include «Jurassic Park,» «The Andromeda Strain,» «The Great Train Robbery,» «Eaters of the Dead,» «Congo,» «Sphere,» «Rising Sun,» Disclosure,» «The Lost World,» «Airframe,» «Timeline,» «Prey,» «Next,» «State of Fear,» and the posthumously published «Pirate Latitudes» and «Micro.»

Awards: Recipient of Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award, 1968 («A Case of Need», written under pseudonym Jeffery Hudson); and 1980 («The Great Train Robbery»).

I woke up one night when The Great Train Robbery was almost completed, and thought that what the book's really about is repression, and that's what the whole Victorian period means.

From The Great Train Robbery: This singular gentleman was Edward Pierce, and for a man destined to become so notorious that Queen Victoria herself expressed a desire to meet him — or, barring that, to attend his hanging — he remains an oddly mysterious figure.

From the very first «Official Website», Michael Crichton hand - picked these passages from The Great Train Robbery:

Michael Crichton was the recipient of a Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1980 for The Great Train Robbery.

From The Great Train Robbery: For the next hour, while the morning passenger train chugged from London to Folkestone, Agar worked on his keys.

From The Great Train Robbery: Pierce and Agar had been on the rooftop since dawn.

To learn more, visit our The Great Train Robbery book page.

In the ten years since, he has written six books, including The Great Train Robbery, which remained on the New York Times Best Seller List for 22 weeks.

He major film credits include Westworld, Coma and The Great Train Robbery.

Addressing the «global, environmental and technological shifts» changing the United States, here you will find artists like Ei Arakawa and his headpiece structures shaped like Hawaiian and Manhattan islands, Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst's Relationship, a series of forty - six photographs, and Dashiell Manley's The Great Train Robbery, a multipart installation and video project inspired by the silent Western film of the same name made in 1903.

The results don't really add up either, from a technological or from a narrative perspective — this Great Train Robbery is more remix than remake.

Los Angeles - based artist Dashiell Manley talks about The Great Train Robbery, explains why he sees himself mainly as a film - maker, and reveals how he forms his ideas and the processes involved in his complex, layered and thoughtful works... read more

Dashiell Manley's doodles have something to do with The Great Train Robbery, the pioneering silent movie, but darned if I know what.

During the gameplay footage, Morgan can be seen utilizing a bow and arrow, dual - wielding revolvers, and even participating in a train robbery.

The trailer shows us a few examples of the Van Der Linde gang's criminal activities; train robbery, extortion, arson.

There is a train robbery, but it isn't clear what role it will have in gameplay.

The trailer shows a train robbery going wrong, which is a fitting prelude to the game's story, as protagonist Arthur Morgan and his newly found brothers in arms, the Van der Linde gang, are left to «rob, steal and fight their way» across America.

We got to see a quick scene of a train robbery taking place, with Morgan and his gang causing havoc across the country.

As the train's beautiful vintage locomotive and carriages pass through Arizona's breath - taking landscapes, passengers are entertained by singers and also witness an attempted train robbery and shoot out performed by actors.

Along the way there's a staged train robbery by the likes of Cracker Jack Jodi, great fun was had by the eight and eighty year olds on board.

To learn more, visit our The Great Train Robbery book page.

When I was working on The Great Train Robbery, I went into Victorian England, then an eccentric and obscure period to write about.

The Web site: http://www.filmsite.org/grea.html To learn where the film was made, read the story behind The Great Train Robbery.

Like virtually all modern television, The Great Train Robbery is presented in the 1.78:1 aspect ratio.

Nearly a year after airing on the BBC in the UK and six months after becoming available to stream on Netflix in the US, The Great Train Robbery recently hit Region 1 DVD from Acorn Media in a two - disc set.

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What's marvelous about the train robbery that kicks off this last episode is the way it unites so many allies — the Gladers, Brenda and Jorge, and «Right Arm» resistance leader Vince (the great Barry Pepper)-- in exhilarating feats that showcase their individual qualities of shrewdness, strength, and precision.

Death Cure starts with a slam - bang train robbery before it segues into a number of cliffhangers in which the «cliffs» are urban canyons of glass and steel.

Silent movie historian Charles Musser directs the 1982 documentary on Edwin S. Porter, director of the 1903 «The Great Train Robbery.»

This film genre actually began with the silent era's serial films around the time of Edwin S. Porter's classic action - western The Great Train Robbery (1903).

April Silvered Water, Syria Self - Portrait (2014, Ossama Mohammed & Wiam Bedirxan)-- 6.1 Song to Song (2017, Terrence Malick) DP — 7.1 Chiasmus (2003, Daïchi Saïto) 16 mm Chasmic Dance (2004, Daïchi Saïto) 16 mm Blind Alley Augury (2006, Daïchi Saïto) Super-8mm Green Fuse (2008, Daïchi Saïto) Super-8mm Field of View # 1 (2009, Daïchi Saïto) Super-8mm All That Rises (2007, Daïchi Saïto) 16 mm Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis (2009, Daïchi Saïto) 35 mm Never a Foot Too Far, Even (2012, Daïchi Saïto) 16 mm Dual Projection Engram of Returning (2015, Daïchi Saïto) 35 mm Early Experimentation Silent Shorts (1896 - 1903, Various) The Goddess (1934, Wu Yonggang)-- 7.2 In the Heat of the Sun (1994, Jiang Wen)-- 6.5 After Hours (1985, Martin Scorsese) 35 mm — 7.1 The Great Train Robbery (1903, Edwin S. Porter) + M (1931, Fritz Lang)-- 8.8 [up from 8.5] + Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Nicholas Ray)-- 8.0 [same] + The Thin Red Line (1998, Terrence Malick)-- 8.3 [up from 7.8] The Void (2016, Jeremy Gillespie & Steven Kostanski) DP — 5.2 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003, Tsai Ming - liang)-- 8.8 Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928, Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton) 35 mm — 7.2 Stranger on the Third Floor (1940, Boris Ingster)-- 5.8 The Fate of the Furious (2017, F. Gary Gray) DP — 5.7 The New World [Extended Cut](2005, Terrence Malick)-- 8.6 In Chris Marker's Studio (2011, Agnès Varda) Bad at Dancing (2015, Joanna Arnow) The Maltese Falcon (1941, John Huston)-- 6.4 + Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch) 35 mm — 9.7 [same] + The Elephant Man (1980, David Lynch) 35 mm — 6.9 [down from 7.1] Two Lovers (2008, James Gray)-- 7.6 + Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)-- 7.3 [up from 7.2] The Lost City of Z (2016, James Gray) DP — 6.8 + Kill Bill Vol.

Though the pursuit in Gun Fury takes the team down Mexico way, the picture was shot near Sedona, Arizona (Walsh employing some of John Ford's creative geography), and even if the 3 - D didn't do its part, with multiple objects and even animals surging toward the screen, and a gun - to - the - camera throwback to The Great Train Robbery (1903), the vibrant Technicolor cinematography by Lester White is bold and picturesque in its own right.

Some will argue that The Great Train Robbery was a gangster film and not a western.

The counterculture Western opens with a botched train robbery by a gang that includes Bick (Hopper), aka the notorious Kid Blue.

With a nod to the movies» first action western, Edwin Porter's The Great Train Robbery (1903), and innumerable train - jacking movies since, the assault on the train is a long, elaborate and cleverly executed sequence.

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The opening of The Death Cure, for instance, drops us in the middle of a full - on train robbery, and the entire scene is a Mad Max - ian thrill.

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He was going through his most incredible period at the time of this film (Alien came in the same year as The Great Train Robbery and Star Trek: The Motion Picture) and this remains one of the most notable film scoring accomplishments.

THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY Screenplay and direction: Michael Crichton, after his novel.

Still, the action sequences, including a sci - fi train robbery and a smash - and - grab infiltration, unfold with the efficient professionalism often associated with director Ron Howard.

Goldsmith's output in 1979 was truly incredible - along with this came Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Alien (and Players, one of the best Goldsmith scores yet to be released) and The Great Train Robbery is certainly not embarrassed to keep such company.

While the movie plays off conventions of the genre (the train robbery sequence is a lively homage to Once Upon a Time in the West) it substitutes the amoral fatalism of Sergio Leone's films with the action choreography of Steven Spielberg circa Raiders, not a bad trade.

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Genre classics like Ocean's 11, The Italian Job, and The Great Train Robbery ensured that heist films were a viable box office endeavor, and they've been part of the zeitgeist ever since.

And when you have guests that have written amazing episodes (like George Mastras who wrote / directed the train robbery episode of BB season 5), I want to hear from them.

They are mistaken for bank robbers and chased by Wooly Bill Hitchcock the rest of the movie, they briefly become cooks for the cavalry and end up destroyign the fort, so are sent to prison, where they learn of a train robbery plot by Big Mack and his gang, which they try to foil, even if it means dressing up like saloon ladies and dancing with bank robbers.

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