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The Great Train Robbery is a american film of genre Drama directed by Edwin S. Porter released in USA on 7 december 1903 with Alfred C. Abadie

The Great Train Robbery (1903)

The Great Train Robbery
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Released in USA 7 december 1903
Length 11minutes
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Action,    Adventure,    Historical,    Crime,    Western
Rating72% 3.6453853.6453853.6453853.6453853.645385

The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent short Western film written, produced, and directed by Edwin S. Porter, a former Edison Studios cameraman. Actors in the movie included Alfred C. Abadie, Broncho Billy Anderson and Justus D. Barnes, although there were no credits. Though a Western, it was filmed in Milltown, New Jersey.

At ten minutes long, The Great Train Robbery film is considered a milestone in film making, expanding on Porter's previous work Life of an American Fireman. The film used a number of unconventional techniques including composite editing, on-location shooting, and frequent camera movement. The film is one of the earliest to use the technique of cross cutting, in which two scenes are shown to be occurring simultaneously but in different locations. Some prints were also hand colored in certain scenes. Techniques used in The Great Train Robbery were inspired by those used in Frank Mottershaw's British film A Daring Daylight Burglary, released earlier in the year. Film historians now largely consider The Great Train Robbery to be the first American action film and the first Western film with a "recognizable form".

In 1990, The Great Train Robbery was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Synopsis

The film opens with two bandits breaking into a railroad telegraph office, where they force the operator at gunpoint to have a train stopped and to transmit orders for the engineer orders to fill the locomotive's tender at the station's water tank. They then knock operator out and tie him up. As the train stops it is boarded by the bandits—​now four. Two bandits enter an express car, kill a messenger and open a box of valuables with dynamite; the others kill the fireman and force the engineer to halt the train and disconnect the locomotive. The bandits then force the passengers off the train and rifle them for their belongings. One passenger tries to escape, but is instantly shot down. Carrying their loot, the bandits escape in the locomotive, later stopping in a valley where their horses had been left.

Actors

Alfred C. Abadie

(Sheriff (uncredited))Gilbert M. Anderson

(Bandit / Shot Passenger / Tenderfoot Dancer (uncredited))J. Barney Sherry
Justus D. Barnes

(Bandit Who Fires at Camera (uncredited))George Barnes

((uncredited))Morgan Jones

((uncredited))
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