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The True Story of Jesse James (1957)

Western

Borrowing widely from Nunally Johnson's script for Henry King's 1939 version of the legend (and using two sequences from the same production), Nicholas Ray's version portrays Jesse James as a rebel rather than a simple outlaw, driven to a life of crime by Northern sympathisers after the Civil War as the film follows the last 18 years of his life.

Country
USA
Cast and crew
  • Nicholas RayDirector
  • Robert WagnerJesse James
  • Jeffrey HunterFrank James
  • Hope LangeZee James
  • Agnes MooreheadMrs. Samuel
  • Alan Hale Jr.Cole Younger
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