Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on November 12, 2018

Sean Connery as Edward Pierce. In addition to writing bestselling novels like Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton also found time to moonlight as a film director. One of his most successful efforts was The Great Train Robbery (1978), based on his own popular novel--which was in   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on June 20, 2014

Today we take another regretfully poor-quality look at the Sheriff of Cochise episode “The Great Train Robbery” (nice title originality there, guys). It was first broadcast on October 5, 1956. Mean, mean train robber Stark is not taking any guff from the hapless conductor (Jess Kirkpatri   read more

Movies Silently Posted by Fritzi Kramer on November 3, 2013

One of the earliest blockbusters, this film is a legend in the history of cinema. But how does it hold up (no pun intended) for the modern viewer? The story involves the execution of a daring train robbery and the subsequent posse pursuit. Exciting stuff or a creaky relic? Robbing...   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on October 10, 2013

Today’s pic takes another look at “The Great Train Robbery,” not the ground-breaking film short of 1903 but the episode of Sheriff of Cochise that first aired just over 57 years ago today – October 5, 1956. Bad guy Stark is robbing this train and he wants you to know...   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on March 7, 2013

The pic for today is another look at Stark, the crazed but rather dapper-looking train robber of “The Great Train Robbery,” the episode of Sheriff of Cochise that was first broadcast on October 5, 1956. I am not sure who the actors portraying his two cohorts in crime are. This...   read more

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on December 17, 2012

The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American Western film written, produced, and directed by Edwin S. Porter. The story opens with two masked bandits breaking into a railroad telegraph office, where they force the operator at gunpoint to stop the train at the station’s water tan. When the train   read more

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on December 17, 2012

The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American Western film written, produced, and directed by Edwin S. Porter. The story opens with two masked bandits breaking into a railroad telegraph office, where they force the operator at gunpoint to stop the train at the station’s water tan. When the train   read more

The Timothy Carey Experience Posted by Marisa on May 4, 2012

Today we finally get a look at Timothy in the Sheriff of Cochise episode “The Great Train Robbery,” first broadcast on October 5, 1956. He portrays Stark, the nasty leader of a gang of thieves who pull off said robbery. As we all know, however, justice prevails (at least on...   read more

Pretty Clever Films Posted by Pretty Clever Film Gal on April 21, 2012

Edwin S. Porter’s seminal The Great Train Robbery, made for the Edison Manufacturing Company in 1903. This one was a game changer. Watch to find out why. Edison Manufacturing CompanyEdwin S. PorterThe Great Train Robbery   read more

Curtains Posted by Janelle Vreeland on January 16, 2012

In the words of Adolph Zukor, Edwin S. Porter was more of an artistic mechanic than a dramatic artist. This glimpse into the personality and mind of Porter tells us much about the man behind one of the most famous silent films of all time -- “The Great Train Robbery.”...   read more