The Great Chase

From the moment the bandits began their getaway in Edwin S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery in 1903, with the posse gathering and riding off in pursuit, filmmakers knew that they were on to something. By the next decade, they'd mastered the technique, and in the 1920's they perfected it to the point where Buster Keaton was building virtually an entire movie, The General, around a multi-part extended pursuit between two trains. The essentials of that movie, along with Lillian Gish's flight across the ice floes in Way Down East and Douglas Fairbanks' pursuit of evil in his first swashbuckler, The Mark Of Zorro make up the most famous parts of this exciting compilation film. (texte officiel du distributeur)