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Movie · 1957

The True Story of Jesse James

The real story… really told for the first time!

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Outlaw romance Folk hero mythmaking Postwar revenge Domesticity versus violence Brotherhood Tragic western

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Release
1957
Runtime
92 min

Synopsis

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.

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