Having fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, Jesse James and his brother Frank dream of a farm life in Missouri. Harassed by Union sympathizers, they assemble a gang of outlaws, robbing trains and becoming folk heroes in the process. Jesse marries his sweetheart, Zee, and maintains an aura of domesticity, but after a group of lawmen launch an attack on his mother's house, Jesse plans one more great raid -- on a Minnesota bank.
The True Story of Jesse James has generally received mixed reviews.
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The True Story of Jesse James was released in 1957 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 10 reviews, giving The True Story of Jesse James (1957) an average rating of 53%.
Overall, film critics prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 75%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a lower average score of 63%. Professional critics were more impressed with The True Story of Jesse James than amateur reviewers were.
With a score of 53%, The True Story of Jesse James is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1957, which stands at 60%.
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