Frank & Jesse (1994)
The civil war made them outlaws. The people made them heroes
At the end of the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James and other former guerillas who rode with Quantrill and Bill Anderson take the oath of allegiance to the Union. Feeling oppressed by Chicago railroad investors, the James and Younger brothers, Bob and Charlie Ford, Clell Miller and Arch Clements take to robbing banks, trains and coaches, with Pinkerton sworn to bringing them to justice.
- Date of release
- 1994-10-21
- TMDB
- 5.2 / 10 (38)
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
- Director
- Robert Boris
Casting
- Rob Lowe — Jesse James
- Bill Paxton — Frank James
- Randy Travis — Cole Younger
- Dana Wheeler-Nicholson — Annie
- Maria Pitillo — Zee
- Luke Askew — Lone Rider
- Sean Patrick Flanery — Zack Murphy
- Alexis Arquette — Charlie Ford
- Todd Field — Bob Younger
- John Pyper-Ferguson — Clell Miller
- Nicholas Sadler — Arch Clements (as Nick Sadler)
- William Atherton — Allan Pinkerton
Interesting facts
Frank and Jesse is a 1994 American biographical Western film written and directed by Robert Boris and starring Rob Lowe as Jesse James and Bill Paxton as Frank James. Based on the story of Jesse James, the film focuses more on myths of The James Brothers than the real history. It originally aired on HBO.
Production
The film is the second collaboration of director/writer Robert Boris with Rob Lowe after Oxford Blues in 1984.
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