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: iIUFILM SHOW JESSE jAS IIE REALLY WAS iJesse James was a God-fearing man who carried a Bible, prayed for guidance, and never drew for j his six-shooter except in self-de- 'fense. JThat unfamiliar picture of the no- ! toriotts outlaw was drawn for motion , picture director Henry Kang by old- j timers in tire Missouri Ozarks who!. icnce knew the James brothers. ~Kmg '■was in the Ozarks seeking locales for j Darryl P. Zanuck's production, j “Jesse James/' the 20th Century- ! Pox Technicolor epic of the most;. colorful desperado who ever lived.;; which stars Tyrone Power, Henry ■• Fonda, Nancy Kelly and Randolph 'I Scott at the Dickinson Theatre five ;: day. starting Sunday, Feb. 19tli. j ; “Those who knew him or heard ;. about him as youngsters,” said Di- |; rector King, “believe Jesse Jamesj 1 was driven to a life of crime by the ! i persecution of enemies, and that; : the efforts of unscrupulous railroad ;officials to steal his mother’s farm at j ; Sedalia, Missouri, for a right-of- j ] way. started him on his bloody trail:| ci banditry. ’1 “In the film, we do not. glorify.|■him; neither do we picture him as j 1 entrely black. We have tried to re- ! | spect the judgment of historians,' James' sworn frieetaoietaoiiimwhat;• without forgetting what those moun- j tain people who were Jesse Janies ( sworn friends thought of him. !
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Chillicothe Constitution Tribune
Chillicothe, Missouri, US
Sat, Feb 11, 1939
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