Jesse James (1927 film)

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Jesse James
Jesse James 1927 poster.jpg
Lobby poster
Directed byLloyd Ingraham
Written byFrances Marion (story & scenario) (as Frank M. Clifton)
Produced byAdolph Zukor
Jesse L. Lasky
StarringFred Thomson
CinematographyAllen Siegler
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • October 15, 1927 (1927-10-15)
Running time
80 minutes; 8 reels (8,656 feet)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Jesse James is a 1927 American silent Western film produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky and released through Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starred cowboy star Fred Thomson whose wife Frances Marion wrote the scenario under the nom de plume Frank M. Clifton.

The film was a light approach on the life of the famous outlaw, Jesse James, and was not popular with a large segment of the audience. Jesse E. James, the outlaw's son, served as technical advisor on the film.

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Preservation status[]

Both IMDB and Lost Film Files have this film as being a lost film while silentera.com states that "a print exists".[1][2][3][4]

References[]

  1. ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 (The American Film Institute, 1971)
  2. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Jesse James at silentera.com
  3. ^ Jesse James at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Paramount Pictures 1927 Archived August 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Jesse James

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