The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-04-26
NOT LIKE FILMS
BEATING BACK"
New Moving Pictures Nearly
Finished Will Show Bandit
Hist CRY Less Fiction.
MN TlLGHLMAN PROMOTERS

"''l"'l'H VI 'hluuhlllu OhllUllN lIuln
the time Of the Dalton gang down to
the capture Of Henry Starr u few
weeks ago wilt be ready FOR the screen
about the first NJ next month. The
pictures have been taken for a com
pany Of which h. u. Nix, former
United States marshal Of this district,
aud William Tilghmau " this city
are the principal stockholders The
Passing ~ the Oklahoma Outlaws Il
the title " the picture. II Is histor
lcally true aud the cost VI making
the pictures Is IN the ncIghborhood of
$50 600.
Probably the most interesting part
OF the pictures 10 the state will he
the fact that they show the career Of
Al Jennings Ns u bandit but the
facts are given, stripped Of any nc
tion. The fixtures, II Is stated. viii
show that Jennings was a bandit only
four months and that his capture Was
effected without n shot being fired.
The pictures have been made 10
comply with the new law which pro
hihits a crime being depicted upon
the screen In this state. Train aud
bank robberies are In the pictures.
hut the criminal act Is depicted 50
rlcyerly that the new law Is not VIC
lated The robbers are seen going In.
10 banks and coming ont with the
money, hut the actual robberies are
not shown however. and the pictures
are exciting from start to finish.
Old-Timers In the Picture.
All the old-timc bandits are IN the
pictures, their parts being taken by
actors who studmled them for months
before they attempted the parts
Many N the men who had a part In
the trying times u oklahoma early
days are In the pictures dressed NJ
they were In pioneer times aud made
mp to appear Ms they did In their
youthful days TIlghman and chris
Madscn, mnrshals who fought the
bandits, acted their parts over again
before the camera.
Many of the pictures we're taken at
the places where occurred the actual
scenes that ARE depicted The moving
picture company Travelled uyer the
state 10 make the films and visited the
scenes where marshnls and bandits
fought. The fight with the Jenning,
gang At the famous old ranch hous,
has Bud lRdhetter In II and wnf
staged under his direction II is vast
ly different from the scene depleted
In 'Beatlng Back
In the robbery " the train near
thirknsha Jennings Is shown In the
act of carrying a bunch Of bananas
from an express car, II being historic
ally true that bananas were n part of
the loot In that robbery. The creates
Interest viii center, though, In the
capture NJ Rill Doolin by Marshal
Iilrhmm at Eurcka Springs Ark
lIlghmau went to Eureka Springs aud
enacted again the scene for the cam
era man II was At that time consi J.
cred the most daring capture ever
mudc iu the southwest and nothing
hns been lett ont " the picture.
Lesson Of the Production.
"Thesc pictures said Mr.. TIlgh.
mi will show the utter futillty oi
n criminal life They ARE intended "a
discourage young men from becoming
bandits instead NJ encouraging them
10 enter a life ~ crime. The bandit
4, not a hero In actual life aud he Il
not made a hero In these pictures
They are interesting because they are
are n part ~ the history " the
southwest, MS the events actually
took place but there Is nothing heroic
about the life Of a bandit.
THESE pictures will he shown al
over the country and we hope they
win undo In n measure the harm done
In the movies shown recently IN whicl
the bandits were made to appear n
such nm attractive light. Our picture,
will show that q life of crime alwny,
ends In death or n prison cell"
Facts are followed throughout II
The Passing " the outlaws" &C
cordlng To those who are interested II
the pictures and they will deplc'
scenes that took place In the e%aTlles'
days on down TO the last robbery d
the bank at Stroud n few weeks ago
Henry starr himself Is In the picture
after his capture At Stroud, and N,
other bandits with him there will h,
shown.
"Other bandits may he added later
too said Tilghman He referred L
the two bandits still at large, Thigh
man went to the eastern part Of the
state a few weeks ago and assisted IL
the capture OF three Of the STROUD
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