Michael Deeley bought the rights to Peta Fordham 's book based on the " Great Train Robbery " of 1963 . He and director Peter Yates offered the project to Woodfall Film Productions where he worked but the company did not want to make it . Deeley and Yates then approached Stanley Baker to star in the film . Baker had a good relationship with Joseph E. Levine whose Embassy Pictures agreed to fund the movie
Great Train Robbery
Great Train Robbery (1963)
Robbery (1967 film)