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The director of a film titled for this sort of event parodied it himself two years later by remaking it with a cast of children and toys as props. The post-credits shot of American Gangster references a film about this sort of event, which features a scene in which a group of men force a foreigner to dance a jig while they shoot at his feet. In a scene depicting this sort of event, a man sings the Confederate folk song “I’m a Good Old Rebel” before a group of men don white hoods. A blinding white light is framed behind the silhouette of a man holding a (*) lantern in that scene depicting this sort of event, which is Roger Deakins’s favorite of his own work. The opening sequence of Tombstone ends with footage from an Edwin S. Porter film titled for this sort of event, which also inspired a shot at the end of Goodfellas in which Joe Pesci re-enacts Justus D. Barnes firing a gun straight at the camera. For 10 points, a 1903 silent western is titled for a “great” instance of what crime? ■END■
ANSWER: train robberies [or The Great Train Robbery; or The Little Train Robbery; accept locomotives or steam engines in place of trains; prompt on robberies, thefts, or heists by asking “what sort of theft?”; prompt on crimes until read by asking “what sort of crime?”] (The scene to which the third and fourth lines refer is from The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.)
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