Among the earliest existing films in American cinema - notable as the
first film that presented a narrative story to tell - it depicts a group
of cowboy outlaws who hold up a train and rob the passengers. They are
then pursued by a Sheriff's posse. Several scenes have color included -
all hand tinted.
The clerk at the train station is assaulted and left tied by four men,
then they rob the train threatening the operator. (They) take all the
money and shoot a passenger when trying to run away. A little girl
discovers the clerk tied and gives notice to the sheriff, who at once
goes along with his men hunting the bandits.
A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.
First, in the opening scene, two masked robbers force the telegraph
operator to send a false message so the train will make an unscheduled
stop. In the very next scene, the bandits board the train and the
robbers enter the mail car, and after a fight, they open the safe. In
the next scene, two of the robbers throw the driver and fireman off the
train and take it over. Next, the robbers stop the train and hold up the
passengers. One runs away and is shot. The robbers escape aboard the
engine, and in the subsequent scene we see them mount horses and ride
off. Meanwhile, the telegraph operator on the train sends a message
calling for assistance. In a saloon, a newcomer is being forced to dance
at gunpoint, but when the message arrives, everyone grabs their rifles
and exit. Cut to the robbers pursued by a posse. There is a shoot-out,
and the robbers are killed. There's one extra shot, showing one of the
robbers firing point blank out of the screen.
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