|
The Gentlemen Highwaymen
Also known as {The Gentleman Highwayman}
(1905) United States of America
B&W : 312 feet
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: (unknown)
American Mutoscope & Biograph Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. / Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / © 18 January 1905 by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company [H56069]. Released January 1905. / [?] Biograph 35mm spherical format?
Drama: Crime.
Synopsis: [From Biograph promotional materials] A novel automobile hold-up in which two gentlemen bandits in fur coats and all the other characteristic automobile toggery start out in a big French touring car on a pirating cruise along the highway. Their first intended victims are a young man and woman out for a spin in a light Oldsmobile. There is an exciting chase in which the light runabout wins out, the larger machine breaking down. As a finish the country constables are notified and arrive on the scene just in time to nab the two bandits and take them away in their own machine.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 4 May 2012.
References: Fell-History p. 38; Musser-Emerge pp. 375, 603 : Website-AFI.
|
