Prime Video offers Walter Hill’s western The James Brothers Gang for a few more days. Released in 1980, it stars Dennis and Randy Quaid, Stacey and James Keech and David, Keith and Robert Carradine to form Jesse James’ outlaw gang.
Jesse James and his brother Frank (James Keach and Stacey Keach)
One might think that The James Gang is just another action western, but beyond that, as is often the case with Walter Hill’s early films, it raises questions about America. And the public agreed, as the film was No. 1 at the box office on its opening weekend, doubling its budget by the end of its run.
The Jesse James Band was a family affair. Jesse worked with his brother Frank, his three cousins (from the younger side of the family) and the Miller siblings. Hence, Hill’s choice was made by the Kino siblings to play them. In terms of spectacle and violence, viewers who came looking for action will be served, but they will also see a good movie thanks to the themes it deals with.
Keith Carradine
The James Brothers Gang is fully part of a new wave of Hollywood that chooses to forego the glamor of the Jesse James myth to stick a little more to historical reality, while offering a glimpse into the violence and morality of these outlaws. A romantic cliché of a bandit who stole from the rich to give to the poor.
As Buffalo Bill and the Indians did before him, for example, the James Brothers gang is changing the cards of American history by dotting the “i’s” so that America looks in the mirror and begins to realize what it was. The main stages of the establishment of the country.
Source: Allocine
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