I Shot Jesse James (1949) - (Movie Clip) The Tragic Corner

I Shot Jesse James (1949) -- (Movie Clip) ...But Them Fords!

Saintly, Lincolnesque Jesse (Reed Hadley) tolerates wife Zee (Barbara Woodell) and her distrust of the Fords, in writer-director Samuel Fuller's first film, I Shot Jesse James, 1949.

I Shot Jesse James (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Bob Ford A Free Man

Following a display of kindness from Jesse (Reed Hadley) and Zee (Barbara Woodell), Bob Ford (John Ireland) finally pulls the trigger and ex-newsman writer-director Sam Fuller turns to headlines, in I Shot Jesse James, 1949.

I Shot Jesse James (1949) -- (Movie Clip) There's My Back

Terrific tension in an improbably intimate scene as the bathing Jesse (Reed Hadley) gives a gift to Bob Ford (John Ireland), who considers murder for bounty, twice, in writer-director Sam Fuller's I Shot Jesse James, 1949.

I Shot Jesse James (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Open, James Gang Foiled

Newsy credits and the first-ever bank alarm-bell as Jesse (Reed Hadley) and Bob Ford (John Ireland) do their business in the opening scene from writer-director and former journalist Samuel Fuller's first film, I Shot Jesee James, 1949.