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    The True Story of Jesse James

    The True Story of Jesse James

    "The real story… really told for the first time!"

    1957

    1:32:24

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    The True Story of Jesse James

    Genre

    Western

    Plot

    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.

    Director

    Nicholas Ray

    Writers

    Walter Newman, Nunnally Johnson,

    Stars

    Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Hope Lange, Agnes Moorehead, Alan Hale Jr.,