The Great Train Robbery

1903

Action / Adventure / Crime / Drama / Western

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 9 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 75% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 22294 22.3K

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Plot summary

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.

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106.49 MB
1280*960
English 2.0
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50 fps
12 hr 11 min
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English 2.0
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50 fps
12 hr 11 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by clockert 8 / 10

A start that filmmakers should be proud of...

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
Reviewed by evanston_dad 8 / 10

Film Editing Is Born

It's hard to assign "The Great Train Robbery" a rating, as it shouldn't really be watched as a film the way we watch films now. But from a historical perspective, it's fascinating, and is an excellent example of the use of film editing, an art form then in its infancy and now an award category recognized every year at the Oscars.Before this movie, it wasn't customary to tell multiple story lines simultaneously, but here, various activities going on in different locations are intercut to create suspense. D.W. Griffith would use this technique much more ambitiously (and combine it with many other developing film techniques) in "The Birth of a Nation" over ten years later, but credit must be given to "Train Robbery" for blazing a trail.Also, this is the movie famous for the shot of an outlaw shooting a gun directly at the camera. I can't imagine what effect this had on audiences at the time, who were probably diving behind their chairs for cover.Grade: A
Reviewed by AlsExGal 7 / 10

Never rob a train just before lunch!...

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