Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: fairly straightforward love/betrayal/sacrifice theme of Noyes poem is expanded to fill out demands of 82-minute-long film, Fact2: aristocrat leads party of associates to hold up well-to-do and distribute takings to needy, Fact3: innocents are being kidnapped into slavery in colonies, Fact4: finale follows poem more closely, Fact5: soldiers march to set ambush
Output (English): The fairly straightforward lovebetrayalsacrifice theme of the Noyes poem is expanded to fill out the demands of an 82minutelong film. The Highwayman himself is an aristocrat who leads a party of associates to hold up the welltodo and distribute their takings to the needy. This campaign is broadened when they discover that innocents are being kidnapped and sold into slavery in the colonies. The finale however follows the poem more closely as the Highwayman is betrayed to the authorities, soldiers march to set an ambush, his lover Bess sacrifices herself to give warning and the hero is shot down on the highway as he gallops to take revenge.