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THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
July 5, 2016  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 6:15 a.m. ET

 

All this month, TCM is devoting Mondays and Tuesdays, day and night, to the Western, with a 100-film retrospective, hosted by Keith Carradine. And the entire thing begins today, early, at 6:15 am. ET, with the first Western ever filmed: 1903’s The Great Train Robbery, the Edwin S. Porter-directed action film, fewer than 15 minutes in length, that ends with a famous shot of one of the bad guys pointing his gun directly at the audience and firing.

 
 
 
 
 
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