The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid overview

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The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid

Synopsis:

The oft-told story of the rise and fall of the James Younger gang is given the Dragnet treatment in The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid. With meticulous attention to detail, the film recreates the outlaw gang's most infamous escapade: the September 7, 1876, robbery of "the biggest bank west of the Mississippi" in Northfield, MN. Cliff Robertson plays Cole Younger, and Robert Duvall appears as Jesse James, herein depicted as a pair of vengeance-driven sociopaths, but no worse than the greedy railroad magnates who've driven them into a life of crime.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Philip Kaufman
  • Studio: Robertson & Associates, Universal
  • Year: 1972
  • Run Time: 91 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • MPAA Rating: PG
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: Western
  • Filmed in: Color