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03/05/09
I Shot Jesse James (1949)
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Runtime: 81 mins
Genre: Westerns
Starring: John Ireland, Reed Hadley, Preston Foster, Barbara Britton
Director: Samuel Fuller
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Top CriticThe focus of this delightfully perverse character study Western is not on Jesse James, but on Bob Ford being a man cursed by his infamy as a Judas figure.
10/04/08
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12/12/07
Top CriticFuller points out the absurdity of the entire concept of modern myth-making, and kicks off the grand tradition of subversive neo-Westerns.
09/30/07
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08/25/07
Fuller goes deeper into his protagonist's tortured psyche, uncovering a sublimated sense of love that only finds expression as climax to his death rattle.
08/22/07
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