Jesse James overview
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Synopsis:
The real Frank and Jesse James were murderous thugs, light years away from the Robin Hood image imposed on them by revisionist dime novelists. But in 1939, 20th Century-Fox wasn't about to build an expensive Technicolor feature around the exploits of a couple of low-lives, thus Jesse James upholds the mythos, offering us the standard whitewashed version of the James boys. According to Nunally Johnson's irresistibly entertaining screenplay, Jesse (Tyrone Power) and Frank (Henry Fonda) become train and bank robbers to avenge the death of their mother (Jane Darwell), killed at the behest of greedy railroad interests.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Darryl F. Zanuck, Henry King
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- Year: 1939
- Run Time: 105 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Western
- Filmed in: Color
