Lippert Pictures
Directed by Arthur Hilton
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, VCI Entertainment)
Tepid western with John Ireland an outlaw in Missouri who assumes the name and identity of the recently murdered Jesse James. Ireland gets his own gang together and proceeds to rob the same banks, in the same order, as his more famous inspiration. Frank James, Jesse's brother, quickly figures this out and alerts the sheriff of the next town to be hit. It's hard to sympathize with the new Jesse James, his motivation nothing more than personal glory and an attempt to capitalize on the notoriety of a real outlaw, and he is a poor imitation. John Ireland's laid back demeanor doesn't help, and the result is curiously uninvolving.
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