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Jesse James at the Capital this week is fun a fair share of the time, but it isn’t history. When it's “rootin’-tootin’-shootin” it is quick as quicksilver and just about as slippery. Jesse James is a name to conjure action with and the picture gives us plenty, too. but not quite as much as the name made us expect. Powers as Jesse is easy to take | in the earlier sequences, but harder to believe when : ' he turns “vicious killer.” Fonda's Frank James is ! great stuff, though, and Nancy Kelly’s Zee (Jesse’s wife) is a sound dramatic job. Henry Hull, that j neglected stage star, almost cops the honors m j the picturesque role of pioneer town editor, and 1 Bromberg's detective is a click for a role that prob-ably wasn't intended to stand out, Donald Meek fine as usual, and the Russell kid cute ditto. Beautiful color photography, spectacular business (night train robbery, chases on horseback, leaps of the James boys and horses over a cliff, dive on horseback through a glass show-window in escape after thwarted robbery of bank) and good acting in a colorfully recreated period make “Jesse James” a l must-see for your list, t
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Jefferson City Daily Capital News
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Tue, Feb 07, 1939
Page 4
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Joplin P.
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