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Young Jesse James: Directed by William F. Claxton. With Ray Stricklyn, Willard Parker, Merry Anders, Robert Dix. In this one, the father of Jesse and Frank James is unjustly hanged by Union troops and their mother's arm is amputated after their home is bombed by Union people, so they go riding with Quantrill's Raiders and Cole Younger and Belle ...
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- Action, Adventure, War
- William F. Claxton
- 1960-08-02
Young Jesse James is a 1960 American Western film directed by William F. Claxton and written by Orville H. Hampton and Jerry Sackheim. The film stars Ray Stricklyn , Willard Parker , Merry Anders , Robert Dix , Emile Meyer and Jacklyn O'Donnell.
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When Missouri farm boy Jesse James witnesses the lynching of his father by the Yankees, he forsakes his family's homestead to find his brother Frank, a soldier in Quantrill's Raiders, a renegade band of Confederates.
- William Claxton, Willard Kirkham
- Ray Stricklyn
When Missouri farm boy Jesse James witnesses the lynching of his father by the Yankees, he forsakes his family's homestead to find his brother Frank, a soldier in Quantrill's Raiders, a renegade band of Confederates. Bent on revenge, Jesse begs to join the raiders.
When Union troops hang the father of young Jesse James (Ray Stricklyn), he joins the violently pro-Confederate Quantrill's Raiders, meeting gunslinger Cole Younger (Willard Parker).
- Western
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This standard western biopic by director William F. Claxton stars Ray Stricklyn as Jesse during his formative years, the only years handled here. He and brother Frank (Robert Dix) somehow survive the Civil War and then join Quantrill's Raiders as they begin their career on the wrong side of the law.
