Men with guns flee from other men, police and dogs in this film by Walter Hagar.
One of the IMDb reviews claims this is the first chase film. My immediate reaction to any claims of a cinematic first is denial, but a brief search shows that fellow British director, Alf Collins, who was accounted a specialist in chases, released his first chase film a month later. Then I remembered A DAYLIGHT ROBBERY, which had been released in July of that year.... and I await reports of earlier examples.
Regardless of who was first, it wouldn't take long for the genre to ripen. The following year there would be chase comedies, like HOW A FRENCH NOBLEMAN FOUND A WIFE THROUGH THE 'NEW YORK HERALD' PERSONAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
It's also a very advanced movie for 1903, starting off with a panning shot in the first of five scenes.
PS: About twenty minutes after writing this review, I looked at James Williamson's 1901 STOP, THIEF in which a housewife chases a tramp who has stolen a leg of lamb.
One of the IMDb reviews claims this is the first chase film. My immediate reaction to any claims of a cinematic first is denial, but a brief search shows that fellow British director, Alf Collins, who was accounted a specialist in chases, released his first chase film a month later. Then I remembered A DAYLIGHT ROBBERY, which had been released in July of that year.... and I await reports of earlier examples.
Regardless of who was first, it wouldn't take long for the genre to ripen. The following year there would be chase comedies, like HOW A FRENCH NOBLEMAN FOUND A WIFE THROUGH THE 'NEW YORK HERALD' PERSONAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
It's also a very advanced movie for 1903, starting off with a panning shot in the first of five scenes.
PS: About twenty minutes after writing this review, I looked at James Williamson's 1901 STOP, THIEF in which a housewife chases a tramp who has stolen a leg of lamb.