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Director:
Gordon Douglas
Writers:
Frank Gruber (novel)
Frank Gruber (screenplay)
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Release Date:
February 1951 (USA) more
Genre:
Western
User Comments:
A lively little shoot-em-up with a great cast! more (3 total)

Cast

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Wendell Corey ... Frank James
Macdonald Carey ... Jesse James
Ellen Drew ... Bee Moore
Ward Bond ... Maj. Marshal Trowbridge
Bruce Bennett ... Cole Younger aka Steve Brill
Bill Williams ... Jim Younger

Anne Revere ... Mrs. Samuels
Edgar Buchanan ... Dr. Samuels
Lois Chartrand ... Mary Bauer
Louis Jean Heydt ... Charles Ford
Barry Kelley ... Mr. Bauer
James Millican ... Sgt. Trowbridge
Guy Wilkerson ... Clell Miller
Ethan Laidlaw ... Jim Cummings
Tom Tyler ... Allen Parmer
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Runtime:
84 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
Norway:16 | West Germany:16 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (certificate #14733)
Filming Locations:
California, USA
Company:
Paramount Pictures more

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A lively little shoot-em-up with a great cast!, 14 September 2005
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Author: louis-godena from United States

This is one of my all-time favorite westerns! I love MacDonald Carey Ellen Drew and Wendell Corey (even though he was a Republican!). Their characterizations of Jesse James, his wife Zee, and Frank James are absolutely first-rate. Gordon Douglas directed some great westerns (Fort Dobbs, The Big Land, Doolins of Oklahoma) and also some real turkeys (1966's Stagecoach should have been barred by statute from being made!). In The Great Missouri Raid, he did a fantastic job! Of course, the story as told here is not too accurate (the "great raid" is actually a railroad hold-up gone awry - an obvious reference to the real-live raid on Northfield, Minnesota), but is quite entertaining (why is it that westerns that adhere strictly to facts also end up so dad-blamed DULL?). Ward Bond is very good as Jesse's nemesis, Major Trowbridge (although his sudden exit near the end of the movie is a bit strange). But watch, too, for great supporting work from the other cast, especially James Griffith (as an undercover detective) and Edgar Buchanan (as Jesse stepfather). James Millican has an early role as a union sergeant who comes to an untimely demise. And don't forget Tom Tyler, a fixture in westerns large and small from the 1920s to the 50s.!

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