The Great British Train Robbery: A Tale of Two Thieves

More than 50 years on, The Splendid Teach Robbery continues to inspire books, TV shows and films. Director Chris Long’s doc focuses on two of the criminals caught up in the heist: the operation’s mastermind Gordon Goody, now eighty-something and living in Spain, and the hitherto unidentified ‘Ulsterman’, who provided inside info about Post Office procedures for transporting money, yet was never nabbed by the authorities.

Much of the visual material that fleshes out Goody’s version of events feels over-familiar; far more fascinating are revelations about the church-vacant ‘Ulsterman’ and his charitable donations.