Studio head Buddy Adler cut several scenes from the revivalist meeting sequence, according to another modern source. In Ray's absence, producer Herbert Swope added the swirling mist shots that signal the start of the flashbacks in the film.
Modern sources note that director Nicholas Ray was working on a rough cut of the film when he tore some ligaments and had to undergo an operation.
A Sep 1956 HR news item places David Palmer in the cast, but his appearance in the released film has not been confirmed. Īlthough a Jul 1956 HR news item places Patricia Owens in the cast and a Sep 1956 HR news item states that Stuart Whitman was cast, neither appeared in the released film. Six months after Jesse's death, Frank surrendered and was tried and acquitted twice.Īlthough a Jul 1956 HR news item places Patricia Owens in the cast and a Sep 1956 HR news item states that Stuart Whitman was cast, neither appeared in the released film. On, Jesse was shot and killed by fellow gang member Bob Ford for a reward. As depicted in the film, in 1876, the gang was almost wiped out during a bank holdup in Northfield, MN. Much that you see here is fact and much is as close to what actually happened as any man can testify." Jesse James was born in Missouri in 1847, and at the age of fifteen, joined a group of vicious, pro-Confederate querrillas led by William C. No person better symbolized that curious mixture than a quiet Missouri farm boy named Jesse James who became America's most notorious outlaw. The film opens with the following written prologue: "The tragic War Between the States spawned much that was good, much that was evil. Jethro Bailey" in The True Story of Jesse James, played the role of "Bob Ford" in the 1939 film. Shaffer and James also supplied the historical data for the 1939 film Jesse James, for which Johnson wrote the screenplay. The onscreen credits read "Based on the screenplay by Nunnally Johnson." Rosalind Shaffer and Jo Francis James are credited onscreen with historical data. The working titles of this film were Jesse James and The James Brothers.
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