The Great Train Robbery

(1903)

★ 7 IMDb · 722 votes

Genres: Western, Crime, Action, Adventure

Year: 1903

Runtime: 11 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Edwin S. Porter

Cast: Gilbert M. Anderson, John Manus Dougherty Sr., Frank Hanaway, Adam Charles Hayman, Robert Milasch, Marie Murray, Mary Snow, A.C. Abadie, Walter Cameron, Donald Gallaher

Plot

After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.

Among the earliest existing films in American cinema - notable as an early film to present a narrative story to tell - it depicts a group of outlaws who hold up a train and rob the passengers. They are then pursued by a Sheriff's posse. Several scenes have color included - all hand tinted.