- Title: CF244
- Date:1900s
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Summary:
1903 feature film about cowboys robbing train. Gun shot to camera.
01:00:10
MS gunmen enters office, points gun at teller. Man pistol whips teller unconscious. Heist, robbery. Robbers tie up office worker, teller.
01:02:00
Steam train engineer uses water tower to fill up trains cooler. Train robbers sneak onto train. Steam train pulling away from station.
01:03:15
MS postal clerk in shoot out with gunmen, shot and falls to the floor theatrically. Small explosion as robbers blow open a trunk full of money.
01:04:30
Train robbers attack train driver, murder, kill train driver then throw his body from moving train. Passengers are ordered from the carriages before being robbed of their personal possessions.
01:09:00
Robbers running through woods with their loot. Using stones to cross stream, mount horses and ride away.
01:11:20
MS folk dance, men and women dancing, holding hands, folk dancing, firing their guns into the air.
01:13:00
Lawmen chase robbers through woods shooting at them, chase sequence, shoot out, train robber shot, falls from his horse.
01:14:00
Shoot out between train robbers and lawmen, puffs of smoke from the gun, horse startled.
01:15:00
Great MCU of robber, cowboy firing pistol at camera (reminiscent of Joe Pesci’s character firing the gun at camera at the end of Goodfellas).
- TYPE:HISTORICAL
- DATE:1900s
- GENRE:
- SOURCE:Filemaker
- Decade:
- Colour:B&W
- Keywords:USA, FEATURE FILM SHORT, RAILROAD, TRAIN HOLD-UP, CRIME, GUNSHOT TO CAMERA
- Master Title:CF244
- Segment:0
- Sound:Silent
