This is should be a Netflix series. You could easily make a good 10 part series about this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gold_Robbery
Oh I note one of the robbers was a Shepherd's Bush Resident.
It is a late 70s/ early 80s piece. Connery playing a Bond, who was never recruited into M16. Indeed Connery did a lot of his own stunts. Donald Sutherland is playing his accomplice. Sutherland sounds Canadian- and that doesn't really fit with the cant he is supposed to speak. This film was based on a Michael Crichton novel. Which was very well researched.
Wayne Sleep plays a cat burgular and does a spetacular stunt where he scales the walls of Newgate prison- Getting back to the research the events at Newgate happen as a female prisoner is due to be hanged. The crowd sing a taunting song.
We see the pleasure garden outside the original Crystal Palace
There is a lot of victoriana here. The Irish language in the cant, Coffins with bells. Oh and extended scene with ratting- You see Brian Glover as the MC. Oh and a London where dead cats can be found easily. Couples riding together, a mother and a daughter playing on twin pianos
A trip to the past- and not a comfortable one
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