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The Great Train Robbery

It electrified dad! It terrified mother! It will amuse you!

7.0/ 10190312m

WesternCrimeActionAdventure

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.

Directed by Edwin S. Porter

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Behind the frames

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The cast

Faces behind the story

Gilbert M. Anderson

Gilbert M. Anderson

Bandit / Shot Passenger / Tenderfoot Dancer (uncredited)

John Manus Dougherty Sr.

Bandit (uncredited)

Frank Hanaway

Bandit (uncredited)

Adam Charles Hayman

Bandit (uncredited)

Robert Milasch

Robert Milasch

Trainman / Bandit (uncredited)

Marie Murray

Dance-Hall Dancer (uncredited)

Mary Snow

Little Girl (uncredited)

A.C. Abadie

Sheriff (uncredited)