Name: Jesse James
Genre: Western
Released: 1927
Cast: Fred Thomson, Nora Lane, Montagu Love, Mary Carr, James Pierce

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Genre

Western

Release Date

Oct 15, 1927

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Paramount Famous Lasky Corp.

Country

United States

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Film Length

8,656ft (8 reels)

Synopsis

Jesse James, a member of Quantrill's Partisan Rangers during the Civil War, meets Zerelda Mimms, a northern girl marooned on her uncle's southern plantation, and is saved from capture as a spy. After the war, Jesse is warned by his friend Parson Bill that his mother has been maimed by fanatic Union sympathizers and is threatened by Frederick Mimms with expulsion from the town. Jesse is about to wreak vengeance on Mimms when his daughter's screams bring help; he flees in a spectacular manner and becomes notorious as an outlaw bandit. Citzens attempt to trap him into surrender with the aid of Bob Ford, who betrays him for love of Zerelda, but Jesse escapes with Zerelda on his horse, Silver King, and forces Parson Bill to marry them in a stagecoach.