Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Hope Lange
The last eighteen years in the life of Jesse James, showing his home life in Missouri, his experiences with Quantrill's raiders, his career of banditry with his brother Frank and the Younger brothers,...( read more
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DVD Release Date: March 6, 2007
Stats: 22 reviews
The performances and direction feel totally phoned in. The few nice moments it does have are outweighed by a really lack luster effort.
A remake of Henry King's "Jesse James" which introduces the Younger Brothers, ups Jesse's Robin Hood-like philanthropy and blames treacherous Yankees, rather than the railroad, for turning a good man into an outlaw. Some scenes are almost identical to the earlier film but the nar...( read more)
Average western with a haircut performance by Robert Wagner and a rather bland one by Jeffrey Hunter. Even the usually excellent Hope Lange and Agnes Moorehead are given very little to work with here.
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