Great Movie, Terrible History

Rating: 8/10 (22 April 2020)

I wonderful, poetic film, but the James brothers were actually cold-blooded murderous criminals who ran with Bloody Bill Anderson and Quantrill's Raiders in 1864. They killed innocent civilians, farmers, women and children, and Union prisoners with no remorse. Sadly there is no mention or even allusion of this fact in the movie and therefore it could be seen as a disservice to the truth, if not outright propaganda. Otherwise as I mentioned, I enjoyed it very much. But remember it is a MOVIE not a documentary. I will never watch "Jesse James" the movie made in 1939 and starring Tyrone Power as the caring, thoughtful Jesse in the same way again.