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4 unusual facts about The Great Train Robbery


Desperate Poaching Affray

The film, along with Frank Mottershaw's film A Daring Daylight Burglary, is considered to have helped launch the chase sub-genre and influenced Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery.

Life of an American Fireman

This particular construction of time and space was not invented by Porter, but he did maximize its use and further develop it in his more famous film of 1903, The Great Train Robbery.

Mike Le Han

His work was nominated for two RTS Awards in 2009 when he directed The Great Train Robbery and Crimes That Shook Britain for Manchester based production company Title Role.

Non-diegetic insert

Most famously in The Great Train Robbery a bandit, either following the character's death or before the narrative began, shot his gun directly at the audience.


Del Synnott

In 2013, he appeared in The Great Train Robbery as Brian Field.

Eureka Locomotive

Warner Bros. bought the engine in 1939, and it was featured in many films, such as Torrid Zone, Cheyenne Autumn, and The Great Train Robbery.

Great Gold Robbery

Michael Crichton's novel The Great Train Robbery and subsequent feature film presents a cinematic version of the event, portraying Pierce (played by Sean Connery), as a gentleman master criminal who eventually escapes.

Precious Images

Films featured range chronologically from The Great Train Robbery (1903) to Rocky IV (1985), and range in subject from light comedies to dramas and horror films.

The Plaza Grill and Cinema

Those films were The Great Train Robbery and The Great Bank Robbery.


see also

Mrs Biggs

Scenes of the Great Train Robbery were recreated on the East Lancashire Railway using a locomotive from the same batch of engines involved in the 1963 raid.

Ron Edwards

Buster Edwards, British criminal, participant in the Great Train Robbery (1963)