Question

Link Jones is left stranded with Sam and Billie after one of these events almost occurs in Man of the West. General Mapache offers $10,000 in gold to a group led by Pike Bishop for participating in one of these events in The Wild Bunch. In a 1969 film, Woodcock (-5[1])is injured after attempting to thwart these events from being (15[1])caused by the Hole-in-the-Wall gang, (-5[1])who are led by two people (15[1])that run (15[1])to (*) Bolivia (-5[1])after their involvement in these events. Justus D. (-5[1])Barnes plays a character that shoots at the camera in the final shot of a 1903 Edwin S. (10[2])Porter film named for a “Great” one of (10[1])these events. They don’t (10[2]-5[1])involve banks, but Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid run from the law for their (10[1])involvement in, for 10 points, what crimes popular in Westerns involving locomotives? ■END■

ANSWER: train robberies [accept any answer indicating trains getting robbed or trains getting held up; accept The Great Train Robbery; prompt on robbery alone or equivalents like thefts; reject “bank robberies”]
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