Jesse James

E42273

Western film film

Jesse James is a classic 1939 Western film dramatizing the life of the infamous American outlaw, starring Tyrone Power in the title role.

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Western film → film →
basedOn	life of Jesse James →
cinematographyBy	George Barnes →
colorProcess	Technicolor →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
director	Henry King →
distributedInFormat	theatrical film →
distributor	20th Century Fox →
editedBy	Barbara McLean →
featuresCharacter	Bob Ford → Frank James → Zerelda Cobb James →
filmingTechnique	live action →
genre	Western → biographical film → drama film →
hasSequel	The Return of Frank James →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
mainSubject	Jesse James →
medium	cinema →
musicBy	Louis Silvers →
notableFor	dramatization of the life of Jesse James → use of Technicolor in a Western →
originalLanguage	English →
portrays	American Old West → American outlaw Jesse James →
portraysOccupation	outlaw →
portraysTheme	frontier justice → law and order in the American West → train robbery →
producer	Darryl F. Zanuck →
productionCompany	20th Century Fox →
releaseDate	January 1939 →
releaseYear	1939 →
runtime	approximately 106 minutes →
screenwriter	Nunnally Johnson →
sequelReleaseYear	1940 →
setInPeriod	19th century →
setInRegion	Missouri →
starred	Brian Donlevy → Henry Fonda → Henry Hull → John Carradine → Nancy Kelly → Randolph Scott → Tyrone Power →
titleRolePlayedBy	Tyrone Power →

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Jesse James (1939 film) →	mainSubject
Tyrone Power →	notableWork