The True Story of Jesse James (1957)
Country: US
Technical: Eastmancolor/Cinemascope 92m
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Agnes Moorehead, Hope Lange, Alan Hale Jnr, John Carradine
Synopsis:
After the disastrous Northfield Minnesota raid Jesse and Frank hide out and reflect on their experiences outside the law, from their beginnings as renegade Missouri farmers to their career as fully fledged bank and train robbers.
Review:
A series of flashbacks drags down what is already a dramatically leaden retread of familiar ground (qv. Henry King's Jesse James). Some of the dialogue is banal in the extreme and the ages of the participants in certain scenes are all wrong. There is one interesting 'shot': a photographer flashes the brothers outside the Northfield bank, only to have his invaluable historical artefact obliterated by a bullet from Jesse's gun.
Country: US
Technical: Eastmancolor/Cinemascope 92m
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Agnes Moorehead, Hope Lange, Alan Hale Jnr, John Carradine
Synopsis:
After the disastrous Northfield Minnesota raid Jesse and Frank hide out and reflect on their experiences outside the law, from their beginnings as renegade Missouri farmers to their career as fully fledged bank and train robbers.
Review:
A series of flashbacks drags down what is already a dramatically leaden retread of familiar ground (qv. Henry King's Jesse James). Some of the dialogue is banal in the extreme and the ages of the participants in certain scenes are all wrong. There is one interesting 'shot': a photographer flashes the brothers outside the Northfield bank, only to have his invaluable historical artefact obliterated by a bullet from Jesse's gun.
Country: US
Technical: Eastmancolor/Cinemascope 92m
Director: Nicholas Ray
Cast: Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Agnes Moorehead, Hope Lange, Alan Hale Jnr, John Carradine
Synopsis:
After the disastrous Northfield Minnesota raid Jesse and Frank hide out and reflect on their experiences outside the law, from their beginnings as renegade Missouri farmers to their career as fully fledged bank and train robbers.
Review:
A series of flashbacks drags down what is already a dramatically leaden retread of familiar ground (qv. Henry King's Jesse James). Some of the dialogue is banal in the extreme and the ages of the participants in certain scenes are all wrong. There is one interesting 'shot': a photographer flashes the brothers outside the Northfield bank, only to have his invaluable historical artefact obliterated by a bullet from Jesse's gun.