The Great Train Robbery | Soundtrack Suite (Jerry Goldsmith)

[@ostwestexpress2709]

Thank you for posting that ! Have this great movie on VHS casette.

[@eoppen]

One thing I loved about this movie was that Sean Connery looked like he was having such fun with his role.

[@cehussey]

Scores like this blow that atmospheric temp-track sound out of the water.

[@videowilliams]

Agreed! "That atmospheric temp-track sound" now seems to be the standard excuse for a score.

[@islamalsaady8479]

Great music... great film

[@christophgogg30]

One of Jerry Goldsmith 's many masterpieces.Music for the eternity!

[@TIOMKIN1]

This truly is one of Jerry Goldsmith's greatest underrated scores. There will never be any music like this coming out of Hollywood ever again.To Hans Zimmer and all the hacks in Hollywood eat your heart out after hearing this great music and learn to write music like this if possible.. Thank you again Fred for this outstanding presentation of Jerry's score. Out.

[@hayleylongster4698]

TIOMKIN1 OMG I thought I was the only one on earth who hates Zimmer lol (I love his apprentice Ramin Djawadi though which is at least something to thank him for)

[@TIOMKIN1]

Hayley Longster-Zimmer's score for The Gladiator I really liked which was probably his best but after that everything went down hill. The man can not write a melody or heroic theme to save his life. He has a masters class advertised on youtube teaching film scoring to have more hacks joining him and all the rest of those hacks already in Hollywood. Great Film scoring dead. I've been a fan since 1957 after hearing Heinz Roemheld's score for the western The Tall T. Take Care. Out.

[@jandreidrn]

Hayley Longster Ramin is not consistent though.

[@embran8486]

@@TIOMKIN1 Can't write a heroic theme? Hello? I like Goldsmith more than Zimmer, but the soundtrack of The Last Samurai is undeniably both heroic & sensitive. And The Prince of Egypt score is awesome!

[@TIOMKIN1]

@@embran8486 I haven't heard any of those scores. I stopped listening after The Gladiator. Thanks for your insightful comment. Out.

[@solaariz]

Fantastic Goldsmith score!

[@nosferatu8530]

Oh the good old days of those fantastic, breathtaking GRANDE movie overtures!😍😍😍

[@SoundtrackFred]

The Great Train Robbery was always a fun movie to watch for me and the Main Theme, that winds itself through the entire score in various orchestrations, colors and forms is one of the little favorites that Goldsmith had written. The rest of the score underlines the scenes perfectly. There are often silent sequences, only accompanied with tense music. However, if I am allowed I would admit that the "Departure" sounds very familiar to the beginning of the "On The Move / Runaway" cue from Goldsmith's "Breakheart Pass". Also a train-related movie with an outstanding score! Enjoy!

[@mikesmovingimages]

The Departure: What a wonderful musical picture of a steam train getting underway!

[@gerardoduqueavila]

Pelicula vista en 1978 en el renovado cine REX (OLIMPYA);Instalando nueva pantalla,mas ancha,el Novedoso sonido SUNSURROUND(SENSACIONES Y AUDICION AMPLIADA ALRREDEDOR DE LA SALA)-"TERREMOTO","MIDWAY", "1941", "UN TREN DEL INFIERNO","LOS NIÑOS DEL BRAZIL", etc.- Todo hecho con gran lujo para ser un cine de primera CLASE Y DISTINCION.

[@Captain-Cosmo]

Thank you, Fred! I was a 10-year old kid when my father played this film in his movie theatre. It did only moderate business, but I loved it, watching it many times in the theatre. I had been a big film score fan since around 6 or so (back in those days, exhibitors frequently received promo LPs), and I was already familiar with Goldsmith's music from early 70s films such as Papillon, Tora Tora Tora, Patton, The Omen, Coma, and the Planet of the Apes series, and his sound was instantly recognizable to me. But The Great Train Robbery was always one of those scores I really wanted to listen to outside of the film itself. I never managed to acquire. And where I once went through a phase where I wanted to hear every note of a score, and relished the releases that included "never before released" cues, I actually prefer the mixes and suites these days. So again, a big thanks from a big fan! By the way, I want to give a big shoutout here for Michael Crichton, who both wrote and directed the film. The story is straightforward, but Crichton did a terrific job, creating a "caper film" that easily ranks with some of the best efforts of the genre. The robbery itself would be horrible today, with CGI, breakneck-paced editing, and endless, noisy, and easily forgettable music. Crichton puts us there, though. It's Connery's actual face we see on top of the train, ducking at bridge crossings and covered with soot. In fact, the full cast is terrific, from the seemingly effortless performance by Connery, to the positively gorgeous Leslie Anne Down. Sutherland is great as usual, and the supporting cast seems to be truly enjoying themselves. There were so many ways this film could have been badly. But Crichton hit all the buttons just right, and he deserved more attention for this film.

[@CaminoAir]

Just like you, I had been listening to film music from age 6 onwards. I was born in 1968. I saw both this film and 'Star Trek: TMP' in the cinema within about 6 months of each other and I was determined to find out who the composers were for both films. Of course it was a single composer and I've been an avid Goldsmith fan since.

[@jubrickner]

This ranks as one of my all time favorite movies and film scores. You are right a lot of films today are quite frankly lazy. I watch this film often and it never loses excitement. Especially like you said know Sean Connery did his own stunts on top of a 50+ MPH moving train is just crazy. Also the actor who played Clean Willy was a ballet dancer and he also did his own stunt work.

[@bretonabbondanzio8309]

This score has elements that remind me of Goldsmith's later score for Dennis the Menace, especially the main theme. Both are "fun" scores.

[@gregoryfrost8680]

There's something to be said for a film where everyone, even the composer, is clearly reveling in their part.

[@madlenellul3430]

Next to the Blue Max my favourite Jerry score..lovely.

[@marktaylor4795]

Thank you soundtrack Fred this is one of my favorite scores. Love your channel. Cheers .

[@tsf5-productions]

I've seen this movie ... two times, I think. Thought that each time, actors Sutherland & Connery worked well in the era that the movie was set in. Donald Sutherland as well as Sean were in their prime. (Granted, as most James Bond movie fans thought...Sean Connery WAS the ideal "Bond...James Bond." And, he had about twenty years or more in acting experience. But...Donald Sutherland was well getting his stride in the movies: from big favorites of "Kelly's Heroes" to "Klute"...then the future in even "J.F.K.") Goldsmith may have had some fun composing this "light hearted caper" but the classic style of Jerry Goldsmith was still going on in stride. I think he "flavored" a bit of this in the first Star Trek movie that was released in December, 1979 that he scored.

[@diosmith]

Extraordinary score.

[@bighuge1060]

My one regret was the cue with Willie fleeing Simms was not included in the expanded score rerelease. Still, the rest of the score is absolutely brilliant. One of Jerry Goldsmith's very best.

[@Edmouk]

Excellent. It really has some Prokofiev's music flavour.

[@Owlzindabarn]

Brilliant.

[@pp312]

Great Goldsmith, but I always thought this film was called "The First Great Train Robbery". Google tells me it was released in the US without the "First" in the title, which must have involved considerable revision of the promotional material used in the rest of the world. .

[@peterfranks6243]

Connery was so smooth and slick in this movie, he looked like a Victorian 007

[@iceomistar4302]

I love the Harpsichord at 7:20

[@antoninolicata6425]

Che grandeeeeee GENIO !!!

[@LittleWhiteHead1]

Can someone explain to me why, in the picture of the original film poster above, the money spewing out of the funnel of the train appear to be US dollars rather than English POUNDS which at this point in history were very plain and had no large image in the middle, unlike US dollars which did!

[@notaire2]

Spannende Aufführung dieses erregenden Meisterwerks, das mich an Pacific 2-3-1 von Honegger erinnert, mit gut phrasierten Töne aller Instrumente. Der geniale Komponist/Dirigent leitet das funktionelle Orcheaster im rhythmischen Tempo mit effektiver Dynamik. Einfach wunderbar!

[@LittleWhiteHead1]

I hate to be pedantic(ha) but the title is incorrect. This film was not called The Great Train Robbery but The FIRST Great Train Robbery! The poster above is not only incorrect in the title, as well as showing that the stolen money is all US$ but the image of the train composed partly of words is undoubtedly supposed to be an American train since the bottom part is supposed to show a Cowcatcher, an entirely American appliance never seen on a British train then or now.

[@guirguisyoussef5422]

ooh wow

[@sethcarlow8363]

Awesome Fred Some how this was Suggestion when i was done watch my last video. and Thank you Warner Brothers and Fred. and now time to end this like a cartoon. cue the music Lights,camera and Action! Tha tha tha tha tha tha tha tha tha tha tha tha tha tha tha that's all KZbin,Folks,Muggle and Earthlings! (Bay-woop!) iris out fade out to black cut and print and that's warp!

[@luisalbertonietoduarte6589]

M05012021. Descanse en Paz Gran Actor Sir Sean Connery.

[@luisalbertonietoduarte6589]

M05012021. Vivira inmortal en sus peliculas.

[@Pope6006]

Leave it to Jerry to kick ass in ah hoist film depicted in the 1800'$!!!!

[@ТимурКасимов-т2э]

Boy from Brazil Goldsmith please

[@tierfreund674]

The General with the cockeyed ID - kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6TPapRoj9mhfqM

[@SAGAR0606]

Little bit similler to, Witches of Eastwick, of john willaims. Dont know why but both sound same very little bit.

[@doogboh]

I think that John Williams has spent much of the last 40 years emulating this score's style.