Jesse James (1927 film) explained

Jesse James
Director:	Lloyd Ingraham
Producer:	Adolph Zukor Jesse L. Lasky
Starring:	Fred Thomson
Cinematography:	Allen Siegler
Distributor:	Paramount Pictures
Released:	^[1]
Runtime:	80 minutes; 8 reels (8,656 feet)
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent English intertitles
Gross:	$1.2 million^[2]

Jesse James is a 1927 American silent Western film produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky and released through Paramount Pictures. The film was directed by Lloyd Ingraham and starred cowboy star Fred Thomson whose wife Frances Marion wrote the scenario under the nom de plume Frank M. Clifton.

The film was a light approach on the life of the famous outlaw, Jesse James, and was not popular with a large segment of the audience. Jesse E. James, the outlaw's son, served as technical advisor on the film.

Cast

• Fred Thomson as Jesse James
• Nora Lane as Zerelda Mimms
• Montagu Love as Frederick Mimms
• Mary Carr as Mrs. Zerelda Samuels
• James Pierce as Frank James
• Harry Woods as Bob Ford
• William Courtright as Parson Bill
• Silver King the Horse as Fred Thomson's steed
• Ruby Fornes (uncredited)
• Johnny Downs as Jesse James as a boy (uncredited)

Preservation status

Both IMDB and Lost Film Files have this film as being a lost film while silentera.com states that "a print exists".^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jesse James . . . 2024-07-18.
2. Karen R. Jones, American West: Competing Visions, Edinburgh University Press, 2009, pp. 250-251
3. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 (The American Film Institute, 1971)
4. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/J/JesseJames1927.html Progressive Silent Film List: Jesse James
5. http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arneparamountpictures.html Jesse James at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files: Paramount Pictures 1927
6. http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6580/default.html The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Jesse James