
Jesse James
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After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
- 6.5
- 1939
- Released
- 1h 46m

Tyrone Power
Jesse Woodson James
Henry Fonda
Frank James
Nancy Kelly
Zerelda "Zee" Cobb
Randolph Scott
Marshall Will Wright
Henry Hull
Major Rufus Cobb
Slim Summerville
Jailer
J. Edward Bromberg
George Runyan
Brian Donlevy
Barshee
John Carradine
Bob Ford
Donald Meek
McCoy
Johnny Russell
Jesse James Jr.
Jane Darwell
Mrs. Samuels - Jesse's mother
Charles Tannen
Charles Ford
Claire Du Brey
Mrs. Bob Ford
Willard Robertson
Clarke
Harold Goodwin
Bill
Ernest Whitman
Pinkie
Eddy Waller
Deputy
Paul E. Burns
Hank
Spencer Charters
Minister
Arthur Aylesworth
Tom Colson
Charles Middleton
Doctor
Charles Halton
Heywood
George Chandler
Roy
Harry Tyler
Farmer
Virginia Brissac
Boy's Mother
Edward LeSaint
Judge Rankin
John Elliott
Judge Mathews
Erville Alderson
Old Marshall
George P. Breakston
Farmer Boy
Lon Chaney Jr.
One Of James Gang
Carol Adams
Minor Role (uncredited)
Donald Douglas
Infantry Captain (uncredited)
James Flavin
Cavalry Captain (uncredited)
Sam Garrett
Rider / Roper (uncredited)
Wylie Grant
Barshee's Henchman
Harry Holman
Engineer (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp
Union Soldier (uncredited)
Leonard Kibrick
Boy (uncredited)
Sidney Kibrick
Boy (uncredited)
Ethan Laidlaw
Barshee's Henchman (uncredited)
Tom London
Soldier (uncredited)
George O'Hara
Teller (uncredited)
Paul Sutton
Lynch - Barshee's Henchman (uncredited)
Released
en
$1,600,000.00
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Reviews

The all conquering railroad marches across the West dispossessing all that get in it's way. When Jesse and Frank James' mother falls foul of land-grabber "Barshee" (Brian Donlevy) the two brothers declare war on the railway. In best Robin Hood tradition, Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda hit the trains big style. Never with the aim of harming anyone, nor of stealing anything of sentimental value. They

The film looks good in Technicolor but also becomes increasingly sluggish as it goes on. Nunnally Johnson's screenplay ignores the truth and presents us with the legend. Jesse James (Tyrone Power) and Frank James (Henry Fonda) are just simple country folks. The railroad crooked agents have come round to buy up land on the cheap by using force. Jesse and Frank become outlaws by robbing trains

Special cast, special movie, just don't expect a history lesson. We are at the time of the Iron Horse birth, the railroads are buying out the farm land at ridiculously low prices, even resorting to bully tactics to get the signature rights. When one particularly nasty railroad agent tries his strong arm tactics on the mother of the James brothers, he gets more than he bargained for. In an act o











