Of course I’d recognise the bastard. Robbery 1967 starring Stanley Baker & Joanna Pettet & James Booth & & Frank Finlay & Barry Foster & William Marlowe & Clinton Geryn & George Sewell & Glynn Edwards et al, director Peter Yates, mother with victim in arms
We’re got capital and half the investment. We all agreed to go ahead? ibid. Paul to gang
Three or four million pounds ... It’s a night mail train ... This is the big one. The biggest. ibid.
You start cheating, Paul, you end up thinking everyone else is cheating too. ibid. her to him
Don’t move for half an hour. ibid. gangsta to train guards
Money to burn, Dave? ibid. rozzer
I do borrow from banks. I mean that is my job. Buster 1988 starring Phil Collins & Julie Walters & Sheila Hancock & Larry Lamb & Stephanie Lawrence & Ellie Beaven & Ralph Brown & Christopher Ellison & Martin Jarvis & Anthony Quayle et al, director David Green, Buster
It’s unlucky working with another Firm. ibid. Buster
£1,000,000! Biggest Ever Mail Robbery. ibid. Daily Mirror front page
Right we’ll go. I’ll get Fairclough to send the dustman in to make sure this place is cleared up. ibid. Reynolds
This is a crime against the very structure of our society. ibid. Sir James
I want those bastards nailed to the floor. ibid. chief rozzer
You should never have brought us to this God-forsaken place. ibid. her to him
It ain’t the money, Bruce. I just want to go home. ibid. Buster
On August 8th 1963, 15 men robbed the Glasgow to London mail train of £2.5 million, worth £30 million today. 2 days later the press dubbed the crime The Great Train Robbery. Secret History: The Great Train Robbery, Channel 4 1999
Both robbers and police were anything but the stuff of legend. And how myth has obscured a catalogue of bungling, betrayal and corruption. ibid.
When it came to trains, the gang was not so clever. They made their first attempt to rob one on the London/Swindon line. It was a fiasco. ibid.
Leatherslade would turn into a disaster area. ibid.
The solicitor’s clerk Brian Field had not only failed to get the farm cleaned up, he’d left a paper trail which would lead the police back to him. ibid.
From the very beginning Tommy Butler [investigating rozzer] had seemed to know exactly who the Train Robbers were … Was his evidence all it should have been? ibid.
‘All the evidence that was found at the farm was manufactured.’ ibid. Reynolds
[Bill] Boal died after seven years in prison still protesting his innocence. ibid.
Foreman goes on to claim he did a similar deal for another robber. ibid.