Week Eighty
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"Bad Men of Missouri" 1941 Sonny as Matt Dalton |
MOVIE NAME: BAD MEN OF MISSOURI
STUDIO: WARNER BROTHES
PRODUCER: HARLAN THOMPSON
DIRECTOR: RAY ENRIGHT
DATE: 1941
TYPE: WESTERN
CAST:
DENNIS MORGAN as Cole Younger , JANE WYMAN as Mary Hathaway, WAYNE MORRIS as Bob Younger , ARTHUR KENNEDY as Jim Younger , VICTOR JORY as William Merrick , ALAN BAXTER as Jesse James, WALTER CATLETT as Mr. Pettibone , HOWARD Da SILVA as Greg Bilson , FAYE EMERSON as Martha Adams , SONNY BUPP, as Matt Dalton
SOURCE: T.V. Guide Online
STORY: Solid story dealing with the notorious Younger brothers, albeit the facts are highly distorted. Morgan, Kennedy, and Morris take up the outlaw trail after northern carpetbaggers pillage their lands and cruelly kill friends and family. By accident, they meet Baxter, a weird Jesse James, who is robbing a train Morgan and gang intend to rob. (The James and Younger brothers were united from their beginnings as members of Quantrill's guerrillas during the Civil War and were even distantly related; they rode together until the Youngers were captured after the disastrous raid against a Northfield, Minnesota, bank in 1878, the James boys escaping.) The film begins with Civil War battle scenes culled from D.W. Griffith's silent classic, THE BIRTH OF A NATION.
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