The True Story of Jesse James

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(45)

3/22/1957

EN

1h 32min

Western

The True Story of Jesse James

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The real story… really told for the first time!

Overview

Having fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, Jesse James and his brother Frank dream of a farm life in Missouri. Harassed by Union sympathizers, they assemble a gang of outlaws, robbing trains and becoming folk heroes in the process. Jesse marries his sweetheart, Zee, and maintains an aura of domesticity, but after a group of lawmen launch an attack on his mother's house, Jesse plans one more great raid -- on a Minnesota bank.

Screenplay

Nunnally Johnson

Director

Nicholas Ray

Screenplay

Walter Newman

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