J'ai tué Jesse James

Original title: I Shot Jesse James

1949
16
1h 21m

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Barbara Britton, Preston Foster, Reed Hadley, and John Ireland in J'ai tué Jesse James (1949)

Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend but is plagued by guilt and self-disgust.Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend but is plagued by guilt and self-disgust.Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend but is plagued by guilt and self-disgust.

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6.8/10

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Preston Foster

John Kelley

Barbara Britton

Cynthy Waters

John Ireland

Bob Ford

Reed Hadley

Jesse James

J. Edward Bromberg

Harry Kane

Victor Kilian

Soapy

Tom Tyler

Frank James

Tommy Noonan

Charles Ford
(as Tom Noonan)

Eddie Dunn

Joe - Silver King Bartender

Margia Dean

Saloon Singer

Byron Foulger

Silver King Room Clerk

Jeni Le Gon

Veronica

Barbara Wooddell

Mrs. Zee James
(as Barbara Woodell)

Phillip Pine

Man in Saloon
(as Phil Pine)

Robin Short

Troubadour

Victor Adamson

Townsman
(uncredited)

Fred Aldrich

Townsman
(uncredited)

Phil Bloom

Townsman
(uncredited)

Director
- Samuel Fuller
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Trivia
Director Samuel Fuller said that he wanted to make this picture because, unlike many filmmakers in Hollywood, he did not see the real Jesse James as a folk hero or someone to be admired. Fuller saw him as a cold-blooded psychopath who shot down women, children, the elderly, the helpless (his gang once stopped a Union hospital train and executed every wounded federal soldier on it) and, in Fuller's words, Bob Ford "did something that should have been done quite a bit earlier in the life of Jesse Woodson James".

Goofs
During the final shootout the background lighting on the closeups and master shots of John Ireland do not match.

Quotes
Bob Ford: Whatta yuh got to eat?
Joe, Silver King Bartender: Sweet corn, cornmeal mush, cornpone with cracklins, and corn whiskey.
Bob Ford: I'll have it.

Crazy credits
Opening credits are shown as posters hanging on a wall.

Connections
Featured in Gunfighters of the Old West (1992)

Soundtracks
Some Day
Written by Albert Glasser
Sung by Margia Dean

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7/10

My name is Robert Ford

I think this movie is more about Robert Ford than say Jesse James. John Ireland does a great job as the cowardly Bob Ford.. the James gang just having finished another robbery is on the run hiding out somewhere in Missouri,, Jesse is living under an alias. One thing that this movie presented to me was that the James' somehow are related to the Younger's and the Dalton's interesting fact if its' true. With that price of 10,000 on Jesse's head it becomes almost impossible for Bob Ford to resist it,, he plans on getting a house in the country and marrying his sweetheart Cynthy,, so he figures to cash in on his friend Jesse's head dead or alive,, what he doesn't count on is 2 things,, first being the public outcry of Jesse's death,, also the shrinking of the reward money,, and secondly how Cynthy would react,, he figures she'd be happy so that they could get married and so on.. wrong ,,, she has a conscious, and starts to despise Bob,, and at best pity him. this is a pretty good telling of the story of Jesse getting shot by Bob.