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* CaliforniaDoubling: Filmed almost entirely in Ireland. Would that be California Dublin?
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The movie was titled ''The First Great Train Robbery'' in the U.K., to distance it from the two million pounds sterling robbery from a mail train in 1963, which was known in the British press as "The Great Train Robbery".

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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The movie was titled ''The First Great Train Robbery'' in the U.K., to distance [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents distance]] it from the two million pounds sterling robbery from a mail train in 1963, which was known in the British press as "The Great Train Robbery".
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* UncreditedRole: Creator/DonaldHewlett as a club member.

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!! For the silent film
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** Creator/SeanConnery performed most of his own stunts in the film, including the extended sequence on top of the moving train. Filming the scenes proved quite difficult for him as cinders from the locomotive get getting in his eyes. This was made even worse by the train going much faster than expected.

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** Creator/SeanConnery performed most of his own stunts in the film, including the extended sequence on top of the moving train. Filming the scenes proved quite difficult for him as cinders from the locomotive get kept getting in his eyes. This was made even worse by the train going much faster than expected.
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* PosthumousRelease: This was the final movie for André Morell and Creator/PeterButterworth, both of whom had died by the time that it was released.
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** Creator/SylviaKristel turned down the role of Miriam.

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* MarketBasedTitle: Released in the UK as ''The First Great Train Robbery'' due to 1963 seeing a real-life train robbery in the UK which is still referred to as ''The Great Train Robbery''. See Wiki/TheOtherWiki for details.

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* MarketBasedTitle: Released in the UK as CompletelyDifferentTitle: The movie was titled ''The First Great Train Robbery'' due in the U.K., to 1963 seeing a real-life train distance it from the two million pounds sterling robbery from a mail train in 1963, which was known in the UK which is still referred to British press as ''The "The Great Train Robbery''. See Wiki/TheOtherWiki Robbery".
* InMemoriam: Dedicated to the memory of cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth: "His friends miss him."
* NoStuntDouble:
** Creator/SeanConnery performed most of his own stunts in the film, including the extended sequence on top of the moving train. Filming the scenes proved quite difficult
for details.him as cinders from the locomotive get getting in his eyes. This was made even worse by the train going much faster than expected.
** In a 2011 BBC radio interview, Wayne Sleep (Clean Willy) told how he was asked by Creator/MichaelCrichton to climb a sixty foot wall. Sleep's response was "I'm an actor, not a stuntman." When Crichton explained that they had not been able to find a stuntman small enough (Sleep is 5'2"), Sleep made the climb anyway.
* PosthumousRelease: This was the final movie for André Morell and Creator/PeterButterworth, both of whom had died by the time that it was released.
* SelfAdaptation: Creator/MichaelCrichton wrote and directed based on his novel.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/TrevorHoward was offered the role of Edgar Trent.
** Creator/NickNolte was keen to appear in this movie, but producer Dino [=De Laurentiis=] would only agree if Nolte also appeared in ''Film/{{Orca}}'', and Nolte balked at that idea.
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