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Watch: Jesse James 1939 123movies, Full Movie Online – Railroad authorities forces farmers to give up their land for the railroad for dirt cheap. Some sell off easily while the ones who resist r dealt with force. The railroad agents tries to force a reluctant old woman into selling, until her sons, Jesse and Frank gets involved. Jesse shoots one of the agent in the hand, in self-defense and later arrest warrants are issued for both the brothers. The agents visits the James brothers’ house with warrants and ask them to surrender but even after repeated assurance by Rufus Cobb, an editor, that the brothers are not inside the house and only their sick mother is alone present, the railroad agents throws in fire lamps inside the house to smoke everyone out but unfortunately it causes the death of the old woman. Jesse kills the agents in revenge. This begins Frank and Jesse’s career as outlaws..
Plot: After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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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 big style. Never with the aim of harming anyone, nor of stealing anything of sentimental value. They just take cash that Donald Meek (“McCoy”) and his railroad will have to pay back. Fuelled by enthusiastic local newspaper man “Maj. Cobb” (Henry Hull) who tries to portray them as more heroes than bandits, they have quite a degree of success before the army are called in to preside over matters. That irks the decent marshal “Wright” (Randolph Scott) who wants a fair trial. Power looks every inch the star in this film, but Fonda is far from his best and, personally, I’d sooner have had Walter Brennan or Arthur Hunnicutt as “Cobb”. Meek, though, is good as the odious little empire builder who manages, almost singe handedly, to ensure that everyone (including me) takes the side of the James brothers. It’s too heavy on the dialogue, indeed there is a real paucity of action for the most part as the colour photography seems to work against any grittiness of the story. It is fine to look at, the costumes etc. all top notch, but the ending sort of sums the whole thing up: the stuff of legend really only superficially dealt with in lieu of box office success.

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 strong arm tactics on the mother of the James brothers, he gets more than he bargained for. In an act of almost vengeful negligence, the agent causes the death of Mrs James and thus sets the wheels in motion for what was to become folklore notoriety, Jesse James, his brother Frank, and a gang of seemingly loyal thieves, went on to etch their names in outlaw history.

There is no getting away from the fact that history tells us that this is a highly fictionalised account of Jesse James and his exploits. What we are given here by director Henry King and his screenwriter Nunally Johnson, is a more romanticised look at the legend of the man himself; which sure as heck fire makes for one dandy and enjoyable watch. The cast is one to savour, Tyrone Power (Jesse James), Henry Fonda (Frank James), Randolph Scott (Will Wright), Brian Donlevy (Barshee) and John Carradine (Bob Ford) all line up to entertain the masses with fine results, with Fonda possibly owing his subsequent career to his appearance here. He would return a year later in the successful sequel The Return Of Frank James and subsequently go on to greater and more rewarding projects. Power of course would go on and pick up the trusty blade and start swishing away, a career beckoned for this matinée idol for sure, but it’s nice to revisit this particular picture to see that Power could indeed be an actor of note, capable of some emotional depth instead of making Jesse just another outlawish thug. If the makers have made the character too “heroic” then that’s for debate, it’s one of the many historical “itches” that have irked historians over the years. But Power plays it as such and it works very well.

One of the film’s main strengths is the pairing of Power and Fonda, very believable as a kinship united in ideals, with both men expertly handled by the reliable Henry King. The Technicolor from Howard Greene and George Barnes is wonderfully put to good use here, splendidly capturing the essence of the time with eye catching results. While the film itself has a fine action quota, gun play and galloping horses all feature throughout, and the characterisations of the main players lend themselves to pulse raising sequences. To leave us with what? A highly accomplished Western picture that ends in the way that history has showed it should, whilst the rest of the film is flimsy history at best… Yes. But ultimately it really doesn’t matter if one is after some Western entertainment, because for sure this picture scores high in that regard. 8/10

Entertaining over-wrought Hollywood claptrap!
Of all the films Hollywood made during the golden years, my least favorite were ones that played very fast and loose with the facts about the Old West. And, of all the Westerns, those about Jesse James as well as the gunfight at the OK Corral are the worst. Think of it from my point of view. I am an American history teacher and for some bizarre reason, I like my historical films to actually bear some semblance to what actually occurred!!

JESSE JAMES, like all these other films, is a historical nightmare from start to finish. The life of this evil killer and thief is practically impossible to discern in this silly but entertaining film from 20th Century-Fox Studios. Instead of a bad man, according to the film, he is unfairly pushed to a life of crime by an evil railroad AND he and his brother, Frank, are good boys at heart!! With such stupid revisionism, we should soon expect to see films where Hitler, Lee Harvey Oswald and Jeffrey Dahmer are heroes!! There are tons more mistakes about the characters–but simply too many to bother mentioning. In fact, what is NOT wrong would be quicker and easier to discuss!! Additionally, there are just every cliché known to Westerns, such as the shootout (“count three and fire”), Frank giving the town an ultimatum to give him back Jesse by midnight “or else”, happy and intensely loyal Black servants, the Robin Hood-like quality of the gang (though at least they showed how eventually he became more of a hardened criminal), the death of Frank and Jesse’s momma pushing them to crime, Henry Hull’s character from start to finish as well as his comments like “Jesse played fair” and “he was one of the gol-dangedest gol-darnestest buckaroos”!

As for the non-historical aspects of the film, there is a lot to like. The film is shot in glorious Technicolor and the camera work is incredible. I especially loved the extremely difficult shot of the nighttime raid on the train–the moving external shot was NOT an easy thing to do and it looked great. Additionally, being an A-picture from the studio, the cast was spectacular–Tyrone Power (Jesse), Henry Fonda (Frank), Henry Hull (playing a role much like you might expect Walter Brennan to usually play), Randolph Scott, Jane Darwell, Donald Meek and Brian Donlevy make for an excellent cast. And, I must admit the film was fun to watch if you could care less about the facts and just want to be entertained. Unfortunately, for folks like me, it’s a chore to watch even a well-made film if it’s so historically inaccurate.

By the way, it should also be mentioned that according to the IMDb trivia section, this film should be remembered for its total disregard for the welfare of the horses during filming. In exciting scenes, horses actually died to make the shots look good and although I am NOT a bleeding-heart, I just can’t help but be appalled with this disregard for the animals. Not surprisingly, this film led to changes in the industry to protect animals in future films.

“He Was the goldingest, dadblastedest, dadgummest buckaroo there ever was”
Everyone should have somebody like Henry Hull deliver an epitaph.

The story of Jesse W. James, America’s most notorious outlaw, the American Dick Turpin or Ned Kelly, was especially popular in the Depression era Thirties. With people having very little disposable income and losing homes to banks out there in the same country where less than a century before Jesse James rode, why wouldn’t he be popular.

The basic outlines of the Jesse James saga in this film are true. After he and brother Frank had done Civil War service with Quantrill’s Raiders, he settled down to be a farmer. And it’s true that Jesse and Frank’s mother, played here by Jane Darwell, was a victim of a firebomb from the railroad that was trying to evict them from their land. After that the James boys became outlaws, the most notorious our wild west ever saw.

Tyrone Power gives a classic interpretation of Jesse James in what turned out to be his first western and first color film. And it was also the first trip to the cinematic wild west for Henry Fonda as Frank James. Fonda got the best reviews for his laconic, understated interpretation of Frank James and it was so popular that he did a sequel film, The Return of Frank James two years later.

Randolph Scott as the honest marshal has never been given proper recognition for his role. He’s got a sense of decency and fair play and some of his best moments come during Power’s jailbreak after he’s been tricked into surrendering himself. Scott leaves railroad President Donald Meek to his own devices. Of course Power turns the table on president Donald Meek and humiliates him. Of course Meek exacts a terrible revenge.

J. Edward Bromberg as the detective/hit-man that Meek hires has some of his best screen moments. He’s a jovial, but ruthless character and your sympathies aren’t with him. To be fair though by this time Jesse James was not a Robin Hood crusader, but a full blown outlaw.

The only other portrayals of note are Nancy Kelly as Jesse’s wife and her uncle, town newspaper editor Henry Hull, author of some flaming editorials and John Carradine as the Judas of Jesse’s gang.

Remember that the Jameses are post Civil War white southerners with the racial attitudes of same. The portrayal of Ernest Whitman as Pinky has come in for criticism. But probably the portrayal rings true, because Whitman would have had to bow low and shuffle for survival’s sake. And 1939 was the year of Gone With the Wind.

Still Jesse James is good entertainment though not exactly the real story of our most notorious buckaroo.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 46 min (106 min)
Budget 1600000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated GP
Genre Western
Director Henry King, Irving Cummings
Writer Nunnally Johnson, Gene Fowler, Curtis Kenyon
Actors Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera Technicolor, Technicolor 3 Strip, Technicolor 3-strip camera
Laboratory Technicolor, USA (photographed in) (as Technicolor)
Film Length 2,443 m (Technicolor), 2,926.08 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Technicolor, Technicolor (1939), Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Technicolor), 35 mm (Technicolor) (1939), 35 mm