The Great Train Robbery (1903)

[DonQatU]

Very interesting movie!

Based on a true incident.......

Staring a real lawman.........

The first "Western"?

Don

 

[Peter Gun]

Yup, good movie, good book (except for Crighton's typical abrupt ending that makes you wonder if you're missing the last page).
Supposedly Sean Connery was almost killed doing the stunt in which he jumps from car to car.

 

[DonQatU]

The plot was inspired by a true event that occurred on August 29, 1900, when four members of George Leroy Parker's (Butch Cassidy) 'Hole in the Wall' gang halted the No. 3 train on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks toward Table Rock, Wyoming. The bandits forced the conductor to uncouple the passenger cars from the rest of the train and then blew up the safe in the mail car to escape with about $5,000 in cash.

I don't think anyone was killed during the robbery.

Don

 

[DonQatU]

You can actually download and view it at this site!

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/gtr.html

Don

 

[El Tejon]

Old West buffs--Trivia question for the class: where was the first train robbery committed and who did it?

 

[DonQatU]

El Tejon, ....the Reno brothers done it!

Don

 

[El Tejon]

Don, someone has been sneaking off reading books! No government skuls for you, huh?

Reno brothers, October 6, 1866 in Seymour, Indiana.

 

[DonQatU]

No government skuls for you, huh?

Not sure what you mean by that, El Tejon. Don

 

[MPFreeman]

Government schools = Schools funded via taxation. Schools run by government. Schools with a vested interest in making good sheople. Also see public schools.

 

[DonQatU]

Government schools = Schools funded via taxation. Schools run by government. Schools with a vested interest in making good sheople. Also see public schools.

Lots of guvment skuls edjemucated me...... And I can still think clearly!

Parents are still the best teachers!

Sheeple is a state of mind!

Don

 

[Mike Irwin]

Uh, Peter?

Different "Great Train Robbery."

This is the one he's talking about (summary from IMDB).

The Great Train Robbery

It's all of 12 minutes long...

 

[Coronach]

Yup, good movie, good book (except for Crighton's typical abrupt ending that makes you wonder if you're missing the last page).

Amen about Crichton. I mean, its like he runs out of time, or paper, or something. A perfect, white knuckle page turner is ended with "AND THE VIRUS MUTATES INTO A SAFE FORM AND EVERYONE LIVES. THE END."



I mean, when I graded essays with a page minimum, there was the same effect. As soon as you hit the magic number, all is resolved inside of one paragraph.

Mike

 

[faustulus]

Here's a mind binder for you. See if you can track down how they made the shot with the outlaw shooting at the camera. It wasn't repeated until many years later.

 

[Peter Gun]

Oops, missed that date. Coincidently, NPR enlightened me this morning by doing a story about how the film started the whole action movie genre. See, NPR is good for something!