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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Fabric Type: 0089859054426
Graphics Memory Size: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Maximum Color Depth: Vci Video
Maximum Focal Length: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 1.0
Metal Type: Vci Video
Publisher: 2
Total Firewire Ports: Vci Video
Total Metal Weight: 1
Total Parallel Ports: May 30, 2006
Total S Video Out Ports: 138 minutes
Vci Video
December 25, 1946
Editorial Review:
Description:
Actors: Willard Parker, Barbara Payton, Tom Neal, Wallace Ford, Jim Bannon, Barbara Woodell, Richard Cutting, Ann Savage, Alan Curtis, Edward Brophy, Russell Wade, Jack Holt, Claudia Drake, Ray Corrigan, Chief Thundercloud - The Great Jesse James Raid: Jesse James (Willard Parker) retired and living under a different name in St Joseph, Missouri, agrees over the protest of his wife Zee to join Bob Ford and Sam Wells in a Colorado gold raid. Second feature, Renegade Girl: Jean Shelby (Ann Savage) is a member of a family of Confederate sympathizers in Missouri during the Civil War. The family has been providing valuable information about the Union Army to Confederate Raiders. Loyalties are put to the test, when Jean and a Yankee captain fall in love. DVD Bonus & Features:Scene Selection Menu, Bios, Promo Trailer Product Specs:DVD-9, Dolby Digital, NTSC/All Region, English Language
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Entertaining enough, but "Raid" merely uses Jesse and various people that were associated with him as raw material for a B-western. The film has very, very little to do with the exploits of the real Jesse James; it's entirely fiction. As an example, "Elias Hobbs" was in actuality not a dynamite man but the town marshal of Northfield, Minnesota, during the James gang attempted bank robbery there. Out of ammunition, he threw rocks at Jesse and his buddies. Arch Clement was killed shortly after the ... Read More
Rating: -
Both movies on this DVD are not without merits. The Great Jesse James Raid is a classic heist movie in the manner of Rififi or Asphalt Jungle, which just happens to be a Western as well. The heist scheme is unusual, the gangsters want to reach gold stashed for transport in a mine by blasting a tunnel from another unused mineshaft. There is a lot of action and 50ies sexpot Barbara Peyton is not wasted on this one. She slaps the men and the men slap her in turn. The garish colors of the filmstock enhance ... Read More
Rating:  -
I heartily second "Mr. Jim's" comprehensive review of Legendary Outlaws, vol. I...two fine films, the kind one used to see on the Saturday matinees, or perhaps late at night. VCI has done its usual great job in this release. Both this volume and volumes II and III are highly recommended.
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VCI Entertainment presents "Legendary Outlaws, Vol. 1" (The Great Jesse James Raid (1953) / Renegade Girl (1946) --- (Dolby digitally remastered)....relive those thrilling days from the early '30s, '40s and '50s when western action took us down the dusty trails and the plains to exciting adventures....some of the best B-Westerns ever to grace the Saturday Matinee Screen...just remember double thrills, chills, mystery and suspense...hitting the bull's eye with excitement...don't miss any of the features ... Read More
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