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The Great K & A Train Robbery (1926)

The Great K & A Train Robbery poster
Original title
The Great K&A Train Robbery
Directed by
Paul Leicester Ford, Lewis Seiler
Genre
Western film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
53 min
Rated
NR
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A railroad detective goes undercover to stop a gang from robbing a train. He teams up with a woman who is also on the train to catch the criminals.

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What happens

The Great K & A Train Robbery is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring Tom Mix and Dorothy Dwan. The film is based on the actual foiling of a train robbery by Dick Gordon as related by Paul Leicester Ford in his book The Great K & A Train Robbery originally published as a serial in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1896. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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