The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Reviews Counted: 8
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 3
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The oft-told story of the rise and fall of the James Younger gang is given the Dragnet treatment in The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid. With meticulous attention to detail, the film recreates the outlaw gang's most infamous escapade: the September 7, 1876, robbery of "the biggest bank west of the Mississippi" in Northfield, MN. Cliff Robertson plays Cole Younger, and Robert Duvall appears as Jesse James, herein depicted as a pair of vengeance-driven sociopaths, but no worse than the greedy
May 12, 1972 Wide
Sep 25, 2007
MCA Universal Home Video
Cast
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Cliff Robertson
Cole Younger -
Robert Duvall
Jesse James -
Luke Askew
Jim Younger -
R.G. Armstrong
Clell Miller -
Dana Elcar
Allen -
Donald Moffat
Manning -
Anne Barton
Clell's wife -
Nellie Burt
Doll Woman -
William Challee
Old Timer -
Elisha Cook Jr.
Bunker -
Royal Dano
Gustavson -
Liam Dunn
Drummer -
Marjorie Durant Dye
Maybelle -
Robert H. Harris
Wilcox -
Erik Holland
Sheriff -
Herbert Nelson
Chief detective -
John Pearce
Frank James -
Arthur Peterson
Jefferson Jones -
Mary-Robin Redd
Kate -
Inger Stratton
Singing whore -
Wayne Sutherlin
Charley Pitts -
Barry Brown
Henry Wheeler -
Matt Clark
Bob Younger -
Jack Manning
Heywood -
Madeleine Taylor Holmes
Old Granny Woman -
Craig Curtis
Chadwell -
Robert Gravage
Farmer -
Bill Callaway
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All Critics (8) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (3)
For all its flaws, The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid is the kind of first movie so rich in texture and invention that we can look forward to a lot more from Philip Kaufman.
A lovely, odd sort of middle Western. That is, it's neither conventional Western fiction nor completely documented fact, although it makes full use of history and is as crammed with the artifacts of 19th-century America.
[The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid] may be a valiant attempt but fails to come off.
Interesting for its demonstration of how exploitative capitalism leads simple-minded farmers' boys into outlawry, though somewhat marred by Duvall's manic interpretation of the role of Jesse James.
Top CriticKaufman's own script never gels and the whole exercise, admirable as it is and enlivened by quirky decidedly unwestern like humour, fails to make much dramatic impact.
An offbeat, ragged but totally absorbing Western.
A Preston Sturgesian portrait of myth
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Foreign Titles
- The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid (DE)
- The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid (UK)
