Question: The Lady and the Highwayman was based on a novel by which English author?
Sentence (from "Frank Mottershaw"): His films, "A Daring Daylight Burglary" and "The Robbery of the Mail Coach" (featuring a protagonist based on Jack Sheppard, the infamous 18th-century English highwayman), made in April and September 1903, are regarded as highly influential on the development of Edwin Porter’s paradigmatic "chase film" "The Great Train Robbery", of December 1903, and often claimed as the prototype of the action film.
Relevant evidence: No