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The True Story of Jesse James (1957)

NR 03/22/1957 Western 1h 32m
61%
User
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6.2/10
88%

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.

Walter Newman

Screenplay

Nicholas Ray

Director

Nunnally Johnson

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Robert Wagner

Robert Wagner

Jesse James

Jeffrey Hunter

Jeffrey Hunter

Frank James

Hope Lange

Hope Lange

Zee James

Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Moorehead

Mrs. Samuel

Alan Hale Jr.

Alan Hale Jr.

Cole Younger

Alan Baxter

Alan Baxter

Barney Remington

John Carradine

John Carradine

Rev. Jethro Bailey

Rachel Stephens

Rachel Stephens

Anne James

Barney Phillips

Barney Phillips

Dr. Samuel

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Media

The True Story Of Jesse James ≣ 1957 ≣ Trailer

The True Story Of Jesse James ≣ 1957 ≣ Trailer

True Story of Jesse James.1957

True Story of Jesse James.1957

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Reviews

A review by Charles Tatum

Written on September 27, 2023

Director Nicholas Ray, hot off of "Johnny Guitar" and "Rebel Without a Cause," had a bit of contractual obligation to take care of before leaving for Europe, and handed in this short biopic of the infamous American outlaw. Mostly told through overly long flashbacks, all the major points of Frank and Jesse James' lives are touched on. Robert Wagner plays Jesse, and Jeffrey Hunter is well cast as older brother Frank. After being driven to crime by the treatment of Confederate soldiers and sympathizers after the Civil War -according to Walter Newman's script, based on the Nunnally Johnson screenplay from the 1939 film "Jesse James," Jesse and his gang ride up and down the Missouri countryside, robbing banks and trains and giving the money to the poor. Jesse finds love with Zee (a bored Hope L...

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