Alle i 1880 Amerika kender Jesse James. Han er nationens mest berygtede kriminelle, jaget af loven i 10 stater. Han er også delstatens største helt, rost som en Robin Hood af offentligheden. Robert Ford? Ingen kender ham. Ikke endnu. Men den ambitiøse 19-årige har til formål at ændre det. Han vil være venner Jesse, ride med hans bande. Og hvis det ikke bringer Ford berømmelse, vil han finde en dødbringende vej.
Brødrene fra familierne Younger og James vender hjem fra borgerkrigen til deres hjemby i midtvesten. Da de erfarer, at den korrupte jernbanebaron Thaddius har svindlet sig til indbyggernes jordlodder, beslutter de sig for at give deres mening til kende med krudt og kugler. Det gør dem til genstand for en kæmpe menneskejagt. I løbet af disse begivenheder opnår de stor berømmelse, og siden legende status, ikke mindste lederen Jesse James.
I tiden efter den amerikanske borgerkrig hærger den berygtede James-Younger bande i det vilde vesten. Banden er ledet af Jesse James og Cole Younger, og selvom nogle i banden drømmer om at stoppe, mens legen er god, er der hele tiden banker, der skal plyndres. Samtidig er Pinkerton-detektiverne på sporet af banden, og de helmer ikke, før alle medlemmerne er skudt eller bag tremmer. Da banden tager på plyndringstogt i Northfield, ender det blodigt!
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
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.
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but things do not go as planned.
Tyrone Power og Henry Fonda er særdeles velvalgte i rollerne som brødrene Jesse og Frank James i Henry Kings farvefilm fra 1939. Af mange blev de betragtet som helte i datidens "vilde" vesten, fordi deres familie var jaget bort fra deres jord af skrupelløse jernbanefolk, og deres mor var skudt af en agent. Sammen med sin bror Frank og andre utilfredse farmere samlede Jesse en bande af lovløse, der overfaldt toge og banker, som var i ledtog med jernbanen.
After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.
After the North defeats the South, Union Maj. Jeff Clanton heads to Missouri to provide the Confederacy's Quantrill's Raiders a chance to claim allegiance to the Union, thereby clearing their wanted status. But standing in Clanton's way are the corrupt lawmen Joad and Fowler, who would rather keep the men outlaws to collect the reward on their heads. After Joad and Fowler frame Clanton for murder, he manages to escape, becoming an outlaw himself.
Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend Cynthy. The guilt-stricken Ford soon finds himself greeted with derision and open mockery throughout town. He travels to Colorado to try his hand at prospecting in hopes that marriage with Cynthy is still in the cards.
Dr. Frankenstein's Granddaughter Maria, and her brother assistant Rudolph, moved to the old west because the lightning storms there are more frequent and intense, which allows them to work on the experiments of their grandfather. But the experiments are failing and Rudolph's been secretly killing the corpses afterwards. Meanwhile, the Lopez family leaves the town because of the evil going on there
Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.
At the end of the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James and other former guerillas who rode with Quantrill and Bill Anderson take the oath of allegiance to the Union. Feeling oppressed by Chicago railroad investors, the James and Younger brothers, Bob and Charlie Ford, Clell Miller and Arch Clements take to robbing banks, trains and coaches, with Pinkerton sworn to bringing them to justice.
The Younger brothers return to Missouri after the Civil War with intent to avenge the misdeeds of William Merrick, a crooked banker who has been buying up warrants on back-taxes and dispossessing the farmers.
Days of Jesse James is a 1939 American film directed by Joseph Kane and starring Roy Rogers. Bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.
This movie looks at the last years (not days, as implied in the title) of famous outlaws, Frank and Jesse James. The film opens in 1877 with the brothers trying to settle down after 15 years of thievery. Frank is shown to be a book-loving and family-oriented man, while brother Jesse is a money-hungry womanizer. The movie follows their lives through Jesse's death at the hands of the "rotten little coward" Bob Ford and Frank's death in 1892.
Jesse James leaves Missouri for Mississippi, and immediately charms all the women in Mississippi out of their bloomers and garters. His first conquest is the banker's daughter who helps him loot the bank in exchange for a promise of marriage; he wanders over to the saloon and runs the crooked partner of the proprietress out of town, takes all of his-and-her money and leaves her, between kisses, hounding him for her share; the third one, the saloon singer, actually makes a mark out of him as she cons him into a boxing match against a professional fighter and he loses the fight and his money, but he holds the singer and the fighter up as they leave town and gets his money back; and then he romances and swindles Cattle Kate, a replay of what he had done somewhere before to Kate.
A powerful story of the son of America's most famous outlaw: Jesse James. Jesse, Jr. struggles to return to the town which his father lived. His love interest is Elizabeth Montgomery.
When Missouri farm boy Jesse James witnesses the lynching of his father by the Yankees, he forsakes his family's homestead to find his brother Frank, a soldier in Quantrill's Raiders, a renegade band of Confederates. Bent on revenge, Jesse begs to join the raiders.
Frank James resents and tries to stop a ruthless drifter who has adopted the name of his dead brother in order to duplicate his crimes.