- Film Review
- Reviewed By Tony Sloman
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4 out of 5
This western virtually canonises notorious outlaw Jesse James, here sympathetically portrayed by Tyrone Power as a glamorous Robin Hood-style figure of the old west, riding out to right wrongs alongside his brother Frank, played by Henry Fonda. The rich 20th Century-Fox Technicolor is superb, and whether the real Jesse was as dashing or handsome as Power is irrelevant: this is stirring stuff, brilliantly directed by Henry King, one of the great masters of on-screen Americana, though would it have looked any different if the great John Ford had made it? Nunnally Johnson's screenplay ignores most of the facts, but who cares. The legend lives on.
Plot Summary
Western starring Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda as Jesse and Frank James, who intervene when railroad agents try to intimidate their mother into selling the family's Missouri farm. But the henchmen return when the brothers are away from home.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Jesse James
- Tyrone Power
- Frank James
- Henry Fonda
- Zee
- Nancy Kelly
- Will Wright
- Randolph Scott
- Major Rufus Cobb
- Henry Hull
- Barshee
- Brian Donlevy
- Bob Ford
- John Carradine
- Mrs Samuels
- Jane Darwell
- McCoy
- Donald Meek
- Jailer
- Slim Summerville
Crew
- Director
- Henry King
- Director
- Irving Cummings
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