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    The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent film made by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company. It follows a gang of outlaws who hold...
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  • The First Great Train Robbery (known in the United States as The Great Train Robbery) is a 1978 British heist comedy film directed by Michael Crichton...
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  • from a British train in 1855 The Great Train Robbery (1903 film), a 1903 American silent short Western film. The Great K & A Train Robbery, a 1926 American...
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  • Train robbery is a type of robbery, in which the goal is to steal money or other valuables being carried by trains. Train robberies were common in the...
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    role in the 1903 silent short The Great Train Robbery, which the American Film Institute and many film historians and critics recognize as the production...
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    (1901), Jack and the Beanstalk (1902), Life of an American Fireman (1903), The Great Train Robbery (1903), The European Rest Cure (1904), The Kleptomaniac...
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    made earlier, The Great Train Robbery (1903) is often considered to mark the beginning of the genre. Westerns were a major genre during the silent era (1894–1929)...
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    Edison Studios (category Film production companies of the United States)
    (1896); The Great Train Robbery (1903); Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1910); Frankenstein (1910), the first film adaptation of the novel; The Battle...
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  • JSTOR 42575500. "The Great Train Robbery (1903)". www.filmsite.org. Retrieved 18 August 2020. North, Joseph H. (1973). The early development of the motion picture...
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  • animation, and gaming. The first film parody was The Little Train Robbery (1905), which makes fun of The Great Train Robbery (1903), in part by using an...
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    that the performer who played in the most films was "Tom London, who made his first of over 2,000 appearances in The Great Train Robbery, 1903. He used...
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    century The Great Train Robbery (1903) classes as a key early Western film, but when released, marketing promoted it "for its relation to the then-popular...
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    Mitchell and Kenyon in Blackburn, England, in 1899. The Great Train Robbery (1903, based on the earlier British film A Daring Daylight Burglary), Edwin...
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    already doing, and he frequently had the same action repeated across the dissolves. His film, The Great Train Robbery (1903), had a running time of twelve minutes...
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  • This is a list of films set on trains. "Back to the Future III (1990)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on February 18, 2020. Retrieved December...
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    development of the concept. The Great Train Robbery (1903) The Road Agent (1926) Jesse James (1927) Law and Order (1932) The Outlaw Tamer (1935) Outlaw...
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  • by the title song from Singin' in the Rain. Films featured range chronologically from The Great Train Robbery (1903) to Rocky IV (1985), and range in...
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  • 2010. The Great Train Robbery (1903) The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) The Birth of a Nation (1915) Orphans of the Storm (1921) The Phantom of the Opera...
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  • previously been improvised. Films such as A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Great Train Robbery (1903) had scenarios consisting respectively of a list of...
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  • the heist film can be seen in movies as early as The Great Train Robbery (1903), the genre didn't become fully fledged until the late 1940s and the early...
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  • The Little Train Robbery is a 1905 American silent Western film directed by Edwin S. Porter. It is a parodic sequel/remake to Porter's 1903 film The Great...
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    Broncho Billy Anderson (category Burials at Chapel of the Pines Crematory)
    played the dancing tenderfoot and the train passenger who gets shot and bandit #1 in The Great Train Robbery (1903). Seeing the film for the first time...
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    exploitation films. One of the significant influences of Indian cinema is Western film. Since the release of The Great Train Robbery (1903), the first Western movie...
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    one of the most commercially celebrated American films of the period with The Great Train Robbery (1903). Elements of heist films are seen in the film,...
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  • "Pioneers" – The evolution of film from penny arcade curiosity to art form, from what was considered the first plot-driven film, The Great Train Robbery, through...
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    to Porter's film that many historians regard as his masterwork, The Great Train Robbery, Uncle Tom's Cabin has been regarded as quite primitive. John W...
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    motion picture, The Great Train Robbery (1903). When her marriage broke up, Parsons moved to Chicago. In 1912, she had her first taste of the movie industry...
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  • The Great Santini (1979) The Great Silence (1968) The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966) The Great Train Robbery: (1903, 1941 & 1978) The Great...
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    The Kiss (1896), The Great Train Robbery (1903), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1910), and the first Frankenstein film in 1910. In 1903, when the owners...
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    looks great!" The media historian James Chapman observed that the sequence recalls the gun fired at the audience at the end of The Great Train Robbery (1903)...
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