The Great Train Robbery (film) - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• Edison made a parody of The Great Train Robbery titled The Little Train Robbery (1905), with an all-child cast in which a larger gang of bandits holds up a mini train and steal their dolls and candy.
• The final shot is paid homage in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas when Joe Pesci's character fires a gun at the camera at the end of the movie.
• Ridley Scott also paid homage after the final credits of American Gangster when Denzel Washington's character in a darkened bar fires a gun into the camera.
• The .45 Long Colt shot clip appears in the historical introduction to the film Tombstone, as do numerous other clips from the film, notably the man shot while attempting to escape the robbers.
• It is believed that the sequence with Justus D. Barnes was the inspiration for the gun barrel sequence in James Bond movies.
• In Martin Scorsese's 2011 film Hugo, there is a clip while the main characters were reading a book, with other famous movie clips such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.