Daryl F Zanuck the head of 20th Century Fox at times personally produced some films. Jesse James is one of these. Zanuck's top screenwriter Nunnally Johnson wrote the film and one of the best studio directors, Henry King filmed it. Jesse James starred Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda, was photographed in Technicolor. It couldn't miss and didn't, it was a big hit with the audiences.
The film itself, as they say must have involved considerable research to get most of the facts of Jesse James's life wrong. The outlaw is portrayed at a simple man driven to violence by a cold corporate rail road company bent on taking over the farms of the regular people for the purposes of building their evil train line.
Anyway, the film is entertaining. A lot of it was shot on location in Missouri and the early 1930's Technicolor is nice to look at.
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