The Great Train Robbery Best Crime Movie

You can’t say Hollywood didn’t get into the remake business early… The original 12-minute 1903 version of The Great Train Robbery, a silent movie about a group of ruthless bandits taking over a freight train somewhere in America, was a milestone in cinema history and one of the earliest narrative films ever. Its ending, with the bandit firing into the camera, was still being referenced nearly a century later in the final scene of Scorcese’s Goodfellas. The remake was made rather unscrupulously the following year by Sigmund Lubin but, as a shot-for-shot recreation, it has all the same theatrical magic. A must watch for cinema buffs.