Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck lead a killer cast in what could be the movie of the year.The outlaw Jesse James was murdered in April of 1882 by a treacherous subordinate named Robert Ford. He was shot in the head from behind in the living room of the rented house in St. Joseph, Missouri, where he lived with his wife and two children. (They were in another room at the moment of his impromptu execution.) By the time he was killed, James had been robbing banks, trains and stagecoaches for 16 years, and had a $10,000 reward on his head. He was 34 years old.
These final facts about one of the most heavily romanticized desperadoes of the Old West are by now widely known. Jesse was well on the way into legend in his own lifetime, celebrated in dime novels as a frontier Robin Hood and eagerly promoted, for political purposes, by a Kansas City newspaper editor who sought to portray him as a defiant guerilla in the recently-crushed Confederate cause. James has also been the subject of dozens of movies dating back to the 1920s, the most curious surely being "Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter," by the awesomely prolific B-movie director William Beaudine. (He also shot a companion cheapie that same year called "Billy the Kid Versus Dracula." But I digress.)
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