Released
The True Story of Jesse James
March 22 1957 (over 67 years ago)Rating
61
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44 reviews
The real story… really told for the first time!
- Director: Nicholas Ray
- Writers: Nunnally Johnson, Walter Newman
- Genre: Western
- Runtime: 1 h 32 m
- Country: United States of America
- Company: 20th Century Fox
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.
