The Count of Monte Cristo
Adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas
Genre Action
Pony Express
1860: Buffalo Bill und Wild Bill Hickock sollen einen Postkurierdienst über den Kontinent aufbauen. Doch kalifornische Unionsgegner sabotieren den Pony Express und beliefern Indianer mit Waffen. Damit nicht genug: Bill verliebt sich in die Separatistin Evelyn
The Black Hand
Two gang members send a threatening letter to a butcher, demanding money if he did not want his shop to be destroyed and his daughter Maria kidnapped. When he is unable to meet their request, they take Maria away. The…
The Train Wreckers
A romance between a railroad engineer and the switchman’s daughter is nearly ruined by train wreckers who knock out the girl and leave her on the tracks to be run over. The engineer perches on the engine’s cow catcher and…
The Little Train Robbery
In this parody of 1903’s “Great Train Robbery”, also made by Edwin S. Porter, young bandits rob the passengers of a kiddie train and are chased by police officers.
Battle of Chemulpo Bay
A historical re-enactment of a naval battle in Chemulpo Bay off the coast of Korea during the Russo-Japanese war. Shows a Japanese ship damaging one Russian vessel and sinking another.
An Interrupted Honeymoon
A film directed by , released in 1904.
The Great Train Robbery
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.
Life of an American Fireman
Porter’s sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from…
The Bund, Shanghai
A film directed by , released in 1901.
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