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Jesse James
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543244424
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed),
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: 2234442
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 06, 2007
Running Time: 106 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: January 27, 1939
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Editorial Review:
No studio was better than Darryl Zanuck's 20th Century-Fox at dishing out lovingly textured Americana, of which this movie is a prime example. The outlaw gets canonized as an American Robin Hood, an honest farmer who, with post-Civil War Missouri overrun by corrupt agents of the Railroad, had no choice but to start robbing banks and trains to achieve a measure of social justice the System wouldn't provide. Tyrone Power as Jesse is quietly out-acted by Fox's emerging star Henry Fonda as brother Frank. The supporting cast is solid--Randolph Scott, Nancy Kelly, Brian Donlevy, John Carradine (as Bob Ford), Jane Darwell, Donald Meek--but the liveliest thing in the movie is Henry Hull, playing a newspaperman whose editorials invariably prescribe that whomever he's denouncing be "taken out and shot like dawgs." Fonda, Hull, and Carradine re-created their roles the following year in The Return of Frank James. --Richard T. Jameson
The legend of Jesse James stars Tyrone Power as the most infamous bandit in the history of the West. Jesse James was a young Missouri farmer forced outside the law after ruthless agents for the transcontinental railroad kill his ailing mother and steal his family's land. Together with his brother Frank (Henry Fonda) Jesse forms a gang of masked outlaws to strike back at the railroad company and the banks that have joined forces to swindle the oppressed farmers.System Requirements:Running Time: 106 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. UPC: 024543244424 Manufacturer No: 2234442
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Jesse revisited
Jesse James was both outlaw and idol. He reacted in a way many would have liked to when wronged. Many have played the role of Jesse James, this classic remains one of the best. It is a must for any historical/western collector. With Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda and Randolph Scott playing the key characters you are in for a real treat in a movie you will watch over and over.
Rating: - Very Good Classic Western
This 70-year old Western classic has a strong cast featuring great acting by Henry Fonda and Tyrone Power as the James brothers. The movie is quite entertaining particularly considering its age. It is slightly marred however by some annoying overacting by Nancy Kelly as the forever babbling, sobbing Zee and publisher Major Cobb played by Henry Hull with his corny, repetitious "Roy, take an editorial.." routine, put in to add some humor to the tale I guess. Fortunately, the strong opening sequences ... Read More
Rating: - great early technicolor western
1939 is considered by many critics and film conniseurs to be the most definitive year for films. some of the greatest films ever produced were released in 1939. the list is myriad, and for westerns this film is definitely included in that list.
even though this is a somewhat fictionalized account of the exploits of the James boys (Frank and Jesse), some of the events depicted are true. however, more fiction is depicted here than truth making this only entertaining western fare; but what ... Read More
Rating: - A highly romanticized account of the infamous desperado...
Splendid in his first Western and his first Technicolor movie, Power portrayed Jesse James as a sympathetic hero and the most charming bank robber of the Old West...
Teamed with Henry Fonda, and stalwart Randolph Scott, Henry King came with a Western classic, considered as one the best Jesse James of the series...
The film opens in Pineville with hothead Jesse and temperate Frank as a couple of Missouri brothers who, embittered by the ruthless tactics of a railroad agent, got ... Read More
Rating:  - jesse james
I had seen this movie back in 1939 and have always considered it a
good movie for Tyrone Power. It is just a good western and feel it
took me back to when the movies were interesting and clean. Jesse James
just holds your interest.
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