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Traffic Snarled as 10,000 ' Seek to See Filming of PlaySpecial to The News Herald.^ Noel, Mo., Aug. 29.--For the second consecutive week-end McDonald county peace officers and state . highway patrolmen had to marshall forces to unsnarl traffic in McDonald county. *» Officials estimated conservatively . that at least 10,000 motorists from throughout the southwest came i here to catch a glimpse of Twentieth Century~Fox movie stars and view tho actual shooting of ’ scenes on location.! Crowds thronged this temporary 5 home of the stars, and others ' crowded into the nearby town of • Pineville, which has been transformed by the film people into a i village of the Jesse James era. for picture-making purposes.' So many persons sought to watch tho company working on scenes at ' the old Crowder home near Pine-: ville that officials were forced to block off the highway for some distance on either side. Undismayed, many persons parked their cars several miles away and walked through the hot sun to the set. Native boatsmen did a big business ferrying visitors across Elk river at another point near the home. Other natives rented horses to the tourists.The crowd which eventually j gathered around the home had the . unique experience of seeing Director Henry King film the final scene of the picture. That scene 1 j depicted Henry Hull as Major t j Rufus Cobb, newspaper editor friend of the James brothers de-’ livering the eulogy at Jesse James' grave while sorrowing friends and relatives hovered neuiby.Earlier there was plenty of action on the set for the visitors when • scenes depicting an attempt to burn I the home of the James brothers(special “prop smoke being used) gave native extras a chance to play their parts as volunteer firemen. It was estimated approximately 150 residents of the community were used as extras in the various scenes filmed during the day.The sequence at the old Crowder home, which has required several days to film, has to* do with an attempt by Barshee, railroad land buyer (Brian Donlevy) to gain possession of land owned by the James brothers (Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda) and their mother, Mrs. Samuels (Jane Harwell). Fonda as Frank James engaged in a fight j with Donlevy; Tyrone as Jesse j James shoots Donlevy in the hand,| and the brothers are forced to flee from a posse led by Barshee and his men. In a later scene, a bomb j thrown into1 the James brothers home kills their mother.Preparations were under way this morning for the shooting of first scenes in Pineville.Neither Fonda nor Power were required on the set yesterday. Fonda went fishing at a camp on Elk river, nine miles northwest of Noel, owned by Marx Cheney, resort operator, and caught a seven. ? and one-half pound catfish. It was | the biggest gish caught by any member of the fishing party, which included two local friends of the actor, Herbert Kimbrough and Jimmy Cole.“When I felt that tug on my line I thought I was deep-sea fishing, Fonda said.In and near both Pineville and ; Noel and in the vicinity of the set, I concessionaires set up soft drink ; stands and did considerable busi-j ness. Other roadside stands began j to pop up at various points, and in. i Noel a Jesse James wax museum i was set up.
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Joplin News Herald
Joplin, Missouri, US
Mon, Aug 29, 1938
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