ROMANTIC OUTLAW

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 169, 20 July 1939, Page 5

ROMANTIC OUTLAW

| ‘-JESSE JAMES” AT PLAZA DESPERADO'S RECKLESS DEEDS The most, romantic outlaw in | the history of America, the dev j perado whose dar.ng coloured a I whole era and endowed it with I the title of the “Serious Seven i ties” the man who invented ! bank hold-ups and introduced train robberies—has been brought | to the screen in Darryl F. Zanuck's production, “Jesse James,” the 20th. Century-Fox Technicolour epic, -tarring Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, and Randolph Scott, whicn opens at the Plaza Theatre tomorrow. | “Jesse James” opens with lhe inlro- . duction of lhe “iron Horse” in its journey through the old West, cutting . ruthlCosiy across the farms of the ; simple hardy pioneers. It shows how I Jesse James and his equally notorious brother Frank (Henry Fonda) began ! tneir career of crime as a direct rc- ] suit of the murder of their mother Iby an unscrupulous hireling of the Ist. Louis Midland railroad in the person of one Barshee, played by Brian i Donlevy. Jesse shoots Barshee anti ' swears to avenge his mother's death. A murderer with an ever-increasing ■ price on his head, he goes from raid ‘ to raid. Love comes to Jesse in the person of Zerelda, better known as 1 Zee, played by Nancy Kelly, a gently < nut lured girl who gave up a life of ’ ease to share the wild, reckless life of , this hunted outlaw as his wife, and '! to bear his son alone in the hills. »I When Zee finally leaves him, Jesse ' (becomes a cold and ruthless desperado. s and the film follows his reckless deeds 3 ’ across live States, climaxing in his ’ I betrayal and death at the hands of L !fiob Ford, the “dirty little coward” of 1 ; song and story, who sold him out to • I the law.