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The Great Train Robbery

The Great Train Robbery

WesternCrimeActionAdventure3.5

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.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.

December 7, 1903 · Directed by Edwin S. Porter

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