Title: Another Retelling Of The Legend
Product review: This is a review for I SHOT JESSE JAMES (1949) directed by Sam Fuller. Bob Ford, played by John Ireland, truly admires America's longtime king outlaw but at the same time wouldn't mind the pardon and notorierity that went along with Jesse's demise. Giving in to temptation, Robert Ford backshoots Jesse in his own home.This picture does a pretty decent job portraying and imagining the life of Bob Ford after the killing. Supposedly I SHOT JESSE JAMES is the first western that has other young gunslingers coming after the new man with the big reputation, soon to be a western cliche.Not the greatest nor the definitive version of this story but fairly well done, in many ways, and one of the early efforts of an American original, Samuel Fuller.Four Stars.
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