The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
The West the way it really was!
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but things do not go as planned.
- Date of release
- 1972-05-12
- TMDB
- 5.7 / 10 (62)
- Runtime
- 1h 31m
- Genres
- Drama, Western
- Director
- Philip Kaufman
Casting
- Cliff Robertson — Cole Younger
- Robert Duvall — Jesse James
- Luke Askew — Jim Younger
- R.G. Armstrong — Clell Miller
- Dana Elcar — Allen
- Donald Moffat — Manning
- John Pearce — Frank James
- Matt Clark — Bob Younger
- Wayne Sutherlin — Charley Pitts
- Robert H. Harris — Wilcox
- Jack Manning — Heywood
- Elisha Cook Jr. — Bunker (as Elisha Cook)
Interesting facts
- Based on: Northfield raid
The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid is a 1972 American Western film about the James-Younger Gang. Distributed by Universal Pictures, it was written and directed by Philip Kaufman in a cinéma vérité style and stars Cliff Robertson. The film purports to recreate the James-Younger Gang's most infamous escapade, the September 7, 1876 robbery of "the biggest bank west of the Mississippi", in Northfield, Minnesota.
Production
The film was shot in Jacksonville, Oregon.
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