Jesse James (1939)
Jesse James

Overview
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
James Brothers Collection
Reviews (3)
John Chard (Rated: 8)
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 str...
DanDare (Rated: 5)
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 r...
CinemaSerf (Rated: 6)
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 b...
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