In this Western, the James and Younger boys ride the outlaw trail again all because of a mean Union Army Major.In this Western, the James and Younger boys ride the outlaw trail again all because of a mean Union Army Major.In this Western, the James and Younger boys ride the outlaw trail again all because of a mean Union Army Major.
Robert Bray
- Charlie Pitts
- (as Bob Bray)
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Did you know
- TriviaThough the film portrays the Jameses sympathetically, and ends with Bob Ford killing Jesse, because the James brothers were criminals themselves, bank robbers and murderers, Ford committed no crime and the film did not run afoul of the Motion Picture Production Code's edict that crimes must always be punished.
- GoofsWhen one of the James brothers asked the bartender to pour him a beer, the beer glass was completely full of foam but when the bartender slid it down the bar it was full of beer with a slight head.
- ConnectionsReferenced in A Fellow Journeyman: Byron Haskin at Paramount (2022)
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Frank and Jesse
Macdonald Carey and Wendell Corey play the roles of Jesse and Frank James in Paramount's The Great Missouri Raid. The James brothers story has never ceased to fascinate people and any number of Hollywood legends have taken a crack at one brother or the other.
Ray Rennahan who is the Mercedes Benz of color cinematographers lends his talents to a nicely photographed western, this is one of the best things about The Great Missouri Raid.
Part of the screen time here is shared with Ward Bond, first as a Union Cavalry Major and then as the head of a private detective agency Bond is obsessed with bringing in the James brothers after his brother James Millican is killed raiding the James farm. That was the way it was in Missouri, the James brothers rode with Quantrill who were border raiders, not regular troops. Bond sees no reason to extend any clemency to these two especially after Millican is killed.
Ellen Drew and Lois Chartrand are the women Jesse and Frank woo and wed and Anne Revere just before her blacklist hiatus days registers strongly as their mother who lost an arm in a rather ill conceived move by the authorities to get the James boys.
No new ground broken her, still western fans will enjoy this retelling of the Saga of the James Brothers.
Ray Rennahan who is the Mercedes Benz of color cinematographers lends his talents to a nicely photographed western, this is one of the best things about The Great Missouri Raid.
Part of the screen time here is shared with Ward Bond, first as a Union Cavalry Major and then as the head of a private detective agency Bond is obsessed with bringing in the James brothers after his brother James Millican is killed raiding the James farm. That was the way it was in Missouri, the James brothers rode with Quantrill who were border raiders, not regular troops. Bond sees no reason to extend any clemency to these two especially after Millican is killed.
Ellen Drew and Lois Chartrand are the women Jesse and Frank woo and wed and Anne Revere just before her blacklist hiatus days registers strongly as their mother who lost an arm in a rather ill conceived move by the authorities to get the James boys.
No new ground broken her, still western fans will enjoy this retelling of the Saga of the James Brothers.
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- Nov 3, 2013
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- In Rache vereint
- Filming locations
- Jamestown, California, USA(railroad scenes)
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- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The Great Missouri Raid (1951) officially released in India in English?
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