The Great Train Robbery
“It electrified dad! It terrified mother! It will amuse you!”
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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Cast
15 people
Gilbert M. Anderson
Bandit / Shot Passenger / Tenderfoot Dancer (uncredited)
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Tom London
Locomotive Engineer
John Manus Dougherty Sr.
Bandit (uncredited)
Frank Hanaway
Bandit (uncredited)
Adam Charles Hayman
Bandit (uncredited)
Robert Milasch
Trainman / Bandit (uncredited)
Known for
Ruggles of Red Gap
Marie Murray
Dance-Hall Dancer (uncredited)
Also in
A Romance of the Rail
Mary Snow
Little Girl (uncredited)
A.C. Abadie
Sheriff (uncredited)
Known for
What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City
Walter Cameron
Sheriff (uncredited)
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Leave It to Susan
Donald Gallaher
Little Boy (uncredited)
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Keeper of the Flame
Friendship
Shadrack E. Graham
Child (uncredited)
Edwin S. Porter Director · Scott Marble Story Blair Smith Cinematographer
United States release December 7, 1903 · Produced in United States
Production
Edison Manufacturing Company
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · December 7, 1903
Theatrical
Australia
November 1, 1904 · Theatrical
Brazil
January 10, 1904 · Theatrical
Canada
January 1, 1904 · Theatrical
Denmark
October 5, 1904 · Theatrical
France
May 21, 1904 · Theatrical
Germany
April 1, 1904 · Theatrical
Greece
January 7, 1906 · Theatrical
Hungary
January 14, 1905 · Theatrical
India
August 22, 1904 · Theatrical
Italy
May 28, 1905 · Theatrical
Japan
December 15, 1908 · Theatrical
June 2, 2000 · Premiere · American Short Shorts Film Festival
Mexico
May 4, 2002 · Premiere · Cineteca Nacional
Norway
February 21, 1904 · Theatrical
Portugal
January 2, 2025 · Limited theatrical · Cinemateca Portuguesa
Russia
September 26, 1908 · Theatrical
Spain
December 23, 1905 · Theatrical
Sweden
May 8, 1904 · Theatrical
February 3, 1984 · Premiere · Göteborg Film Festival
United Kingdom
January 23, 1904 · Theatrical
March 16, 1936 · Theatrical · Re-release
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