Jesse James

Directed by Henry King

Passed

1939 1h 46mWestern, Drama,

7.067%6.5

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After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

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Cast of Jesse James

Tyrone PowerJesse Woodson James
Henry FondaFrank James
Nancy KellyZerelda "Zee" Cobb
Randolph ScottMarshall Will Wright
Henry HullMajor Rufus Cobb
Slim SummervilleJailer
J. Edward BrombergGeorge Runyan
Brian DonlevyBarshee
John CarradineBob Ford
Donald MeekMcCoy
Johnny RussellJesse James Jr.
Jane DarwellMrs. Samuels - Jesse's mother
Charles TannenCharles Ford
Claire Du BreyMrs. Bob Ford
Willard RobertsonClarke
Harold GoodwinBill
Ernest WhitmanPinkie
Eddy WallerDeputy
Paul E. BurnsHank
Spencer ChartersMinister
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Jesse James Ratings & Reviews

eif999January 24, 2025
Revisiting after going down a Jesse James rabbit hole this week. A fine big-budget color western that makes every cowboy tall and handsome, and every other man short and squat. I’m a sucker for the look of early color films and this one looks like a dream. The shot of James crawling atop a lit train moving train is particularly breathtaking. The horses riding through a shop window to escape is aped almost exactly in The Long Riders. The film doesn’t a good job telling the story of how the stress of the life can break up a family. Of course Jesse’s wife Z goes from Tyrone Power to the arms of Randolph Scott like she’s the only woman in the west so yeah hard to feel sorry for her. Every film that covers that last bank robbery and the coaxing of Ford to shoot him is never not fantastic. It’s like Count of Monte Cristo movies in that nearly every Jesse James film is good - except for James movies with Robert Wagner and the Frankenstein one.

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Jesse James Trivia

Jesse James was released on January 27, 1939.

Jesse James was directed by Henry King.

Jesse James has a runtime of 1 hr 46 min.

Jesse James was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.

The key characters in Jesse James are Jesse Woodson James (Tyrone Power), Frank James (Henry Fonda), Zerelda "Zee" Cobb (Nancy Kelly).

Jesse James is rated Passed.

Jesse James is a Western, Drama, Crime film.

Jesse James has an audience rating of 6.7 out of 10.

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