Jesse James
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
Cast
Tyrone Power
as Jesse Woodson James
Henry Fonda
as Frank James
Nancy Kelly
as Zerelda "Zee" Cobb
Randolph Scott
as Marshall Will Wright
Henry Hull
as Major Rufus Cobb
Slim Summerville
as Jailer
J. Edward Bromberg
as George Runyan
Brian Donlevy
as Barshee
John Carradine
as Bob Ford
Donald Meek
as McCoy
Reviews
John Chard
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
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
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...
