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1 December 1903 (USA)
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A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels. full summary | full synopsis
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1 win
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Cast
(Cast) | A.C. Abadie | ... | Sheriff (uncredited) |
| Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson | ... | Bandit / Shot Passenger / Tenderfoot Dancer (uncredited) |
| George Barnes | ... | (uncredited) |
| Justus D. Barnes | ... | Bandit Who Fires at Camera (uncredited) |
| Walter Cameron | ... | Sheriff (uncredited) |
| John Manus Dougherty Sr. | ... | Fourth Bandit (uncredited) |
 | Donald Gallaher | ... | Little Boy (uncredited) |
| Frank Hanaway | ... | Bandit (uncredited) |
| Adam Charles Hayman | ... | Bandit (uncredited) |
| Morgan Jones | ... | (uncredited) |
| Tom London | ... | Extra (uncredited) |
| Marie Murray | ... | Dance-Hall Dancer (uncredited) |
| Mary Snow | ... | Little Girl (uncredited) |
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11 min (18 fps) (TCM print)
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Black and White (hand-colored)
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1.33 : 1 more
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USA:TV-G (TV rating)
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The film uses simple editing techniques (each scene is a single shot) and the story is mostly linear (with only a few "meanwhile" moments) but it represents a significant step in movie making, being one of the first "narrative" movies.
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Continuity: After the bandits have robbed the passengers they run towards the rear of the train instead of towards the front, where their getaway locomotive is waiting. In the next shot, they are seen running towards the locomotive.
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Featured in Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982)
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As an early film, this film is quite spectacular. Ok, so it's only twelve minutes, but that is twelve minutes of pure action and entertainment. When this film was made, things like special effects were hardly thought of, but notice how well the transgression from person to doll on the "throw the dead guy off the train" goes, and how nicely they have "moved the train" without moving the camera when they leave the locomotive behind.
This movie is probably the best preview to how modern westerns became, at least if you take the best twelve minutes of many westerns, the twelve where people get shot, beat up and alerted. The movie follows it's storyline perfectly, and is easy to grasp the continuance throughout the film, in all, quite a masterpiece that comes highly recommended.
Christian Lockert