Jesse James
Jesse James

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- 70/100 based on 4,793 votes
  • Released: 1939
  • Runtime: 106 mins
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  • Studio: 20th Century Fox
  • Genres: Western

Railroad authorities forces farmers to give up their land for the railroad for dirt cheap. Some sell off easily while the ones who resist r dealt with force. The railroad agents tries to force a reluctant old woman into selling, until her sons, Jesse and Frank gets involved. Jesse shoots one of the agent in the hand, in self-defense and later arrest warrants are issued for both the brothers. The agents visits the James brothers' house with warrants and ask them to surrender b... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Jesse James:

Tyrone Power
Henry Fonda
Nancy Kelly
Randolph Scott
Henry Hull
Slim Summerville

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Railroad authorities forces farmers to give up their land for the railroad for dirt cheap. Some sell off easily while the ones who resist r dealt with force. The railroad agents tries to force a reluctant old woman into selling, until her sons, Jesse and Frank gets involved. Jesse shoots one of the agent in the hand, in self-defense and later arrest warrants are issued for both the brothers. The agents visits the James brothers' house with warrants and ask them to surrender but even after repeated assurance by Rufus Cobb, an editor, that the brothers are not inside the house and only their sick mother is alone present, the railroad agents throws in fire lamps inside the house to smoke everyone out but unfortunately it causes the death of the old woman. Jesse kills the agents in revenge. This begins Frank and Jesse's career as outlaws.

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Movie Metropolis - 7/10 by James Plath'Jesse James' has rich-looking production values and a story to tell that borders on the mythic . . . or the demythologized. In this, the filmmakers couldn't decide.
User Review - 10/10 by Ally CI love this movie! Tyrone Power makes a perfect Jesse James along with Henry Fonda playing Frank James. I do wish that there would be a little more action, but it's still well made. There were a few things off in the movie, and it was a little predictable, but it's still one of my favorites today.
User Review - 10/10 by Sylvester ETyrone Power sports a matched pair of six-shooters in shoulder holsters in Twentieth Century Fox's glamorous but historically challenged biography "Jesse James" (1939) with a lanky, mustached Henry Fonda co-starring as Jesse's older brother Frank. This was the first major Technicolored saga of America's most notorious train robber Jesse James since 1927 when director Lloyd Ingraham helmed the silent, black & white "Jesse James" for Paramount Pictures. In any case, "Lloyd's of London" director Henry King gives this horse opera all the 'pop' it requires in terms of action, while future "Dirty Dozen" scenarist Nunnally Johnson supplies the proper amount of corn. Twentieth Century Fox studio mogul Darryl F. Zanuck loaded this 106 minute epic with contract talent that graced all the blockbuster Fox films. John Carradine solidified his credentials as an evil incarnate with his portrayal of the treacherous Bob Ford who later shoots Jesse in the back. Carradine later became one of America's foremost horror actors. He resembles Satan. Ironically, Charles Middleton, who played 'Ming the Merciless' in the "Flash Gordon" serials, has a walk-on as a kindly country sawbones. Durable Randolph Scott who plays a sheriff that warns Jesse that when they meet again, they'll be blazing away at each other with their pistols. Ironically, Scott never brandishes his six-gun. "High Sierra" character actor Henry Hull steals every scene that he has as cantankerous old newspaper publisher Major Rufus Cobb. Hull is hilarious when he launches into a tirade against some perceived evil and dictates an editorial to his typesetter. At one point, the Major blames lawyers for corrupting mankind. "If we are ever going to have law and order in the West, the first thing we gotta do is take out all the lawyers and shoot'em down like dogs!" Priceless moments like these relieve "Jesse James" of the oppressive gloom and doom that hovers over the protagonist's head. "Jesse James" takes place in post-Civil War America during the railroad building boom. Anybody that has seen any of the other movies about Jesse James knows he rode with renegade Confederate Colonel William Quantrill and his raiders. The first time we see Jesse (Tyrone Power of "In Old Chicago"); he is unarmed, clearing underbrush with a scythe. Barshee (Bryan Donlevy of "Destry") and a group of railroad troubleshooters descend on poor, defenseless homeowners and coerce them into selling their acreage for one to two dollars an acre. They warn those refusing to sell that the government will simply condemn their land and then confiscate it for nothing. Barshee's strategy fails him when he ventures onto the homestead of Mrs. Samuels (Jane Darnell of "The Grapes of Wrath"), the mother of Jesse and Frank James. Frank and Barshee brawl. When Frank isn't watching the 'tricky' Barshee, the railroad man seizes a scythe to slash him, but Jesse wounds him in the hand. Barshee and his bunch skedaddle back to town and convince the sheriff to deputize them. Barshee and company ride out after Jesse. Meanwhile, Jesse lights out after he has called a meeting with his fellow landowners to plot strategy against the railroad. In a sense, Jesse emerges briefly as an agitator against the forces of big business. Things worsen when Barshee returns to the James farm and hurls a bomb into the James house. Mrs. Samuels dies. Jesse and his brother Frank assemble a gang and terrorize the St. Louis Midland Railroad. The president McCoy (tyke-sized Donald Meek) who wants to see Jesse hang for his harassing his railroad and passengers will stop at nothing. Jesse and his gang rob the Midland train and the passengers. At the same, time Zerelda Cobb (Oscar nominated Nancy Kelly of "The Bad Seed") marries Jesse while they are on the lam in a church by a reverend who had to give up working a real job to preach after Barshee's men legally stole his homestead. This Twentieth Century Fox tent pole epic sanitizes the train robber's image. Matinée idol Tyrone Power was Fox's answer to Warner Brothers' Errol Flynn. Indeed, Power is a far cry from the psychotic Jesse James that Robert Duvall played in "The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid." Nevertheless, by 1939 standards of 1939, "Jesse James" constituted a terrific shoot'em up. King stages a dramatic showdown in a bar between Jesse and Barshee. King handles the complicated Northfield, Minnesota, raid with verve, especially when the James boys crash their horses through a storefront window to escape a withering fusillade from townspeople that had been laying in wait for their arrival. The on-location shooting bolsters authenticity. Watch the scene where Jesse charges hell-bent-for-leather between the railroad tracks and the horse misses a step between the cross-ties but quickly recovers. Our protagonists escape the Northfield posse in classic "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" fashion when they plunge their horses off a cliff into a river and swim to safety. The turning point occurs when Zee has her baby son but Jesse isn't around to watch her give birth. Zee demands that Major Cole take her back to Liberty. Johnson does a superb job of foreshadowing events in "Jesse James." Zee realizes not long after Jesse turns outlaw that his life will be cursed and their relationship breaks down because Jesse worries so much about the law that he spends more time away from Zee than with her. The greatest example of foreshadowing occurs near the end when Jesse hastens outside to his son's side during a pretend game of outlaws where Jesse, Jr., (John Russell) impersonates his dadâ??unbeknownst to everybody that Mr. Howard is really Jesseâ??and we know that Jesse's death is imminent. The children shoot Jesse, Jr., with their wooden guns and he dies before his stunned father who decides to hang up his gun and take his family to California where they will live as law-abiding citizens. Ultimately, King and Johnson concede in the last scene that Jesse James was an 'outlaw, bandit, and criminal.'
User Review - 10/10 by Maria Ca very popular film in its day, and still a grand show. Filmed in Pineville Mo where the film is celebrated to this day every year. Beautiful color, beautiful leads - I love it.
User Review - 10/10 by Roland JIf you like westerns and if you like oldies and of you like Fonda, you'll like this one!
User Review - 8/10 by Ben RHistorical accuracy aside, this is a terrific film from Hollywood's greatest year, 1939. Tyrone Power, Randolph Scott, and especially a young Henry Fonda were all at their very best in this film that holds up remarkably well even after seventy years.
User Review - 8/10 by Paul DShould have cast Fonda in the lead role. but entertaining and well told
User Review - 8/10 by Stephen MA hugely entertaining version of the story, nicely shot in early Technicolor. Considering the size and weight of the cameras in those days, the use of real backgrounds in the posse chases is commendable and impressive. The second half, where the story takes a more serious turn, is less fun, but the film stands up very well.
User Review - 8/10 by Megan UGreat classic film w/ Henry Fonda and Frank James. Don't forget to see the sequel, The Return of Frank James.
User Review - 8/10 by Justin RA Great biographical western, wanna see the new Brad Pitt movie

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