I Shot Jesse James
(Balas vengadoras / Yo maté a Jesse James)
(USA, 1949) [B/N, 81 m.]
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Ficha técnica.
Dirección: Samuel Fuller.
Argumento: Homer Croy (artículo en "American Weekly magazine"), Samuel Fuller.
Guión: Samuel Fuller, Robert Gardner (no acreditado).
Fotografía: Ernest Miller (B&W).
Música: Albert Glasser.
Producción: Carl K. Hittleman, Robert L. Lippert.
Productora: Lippert Pictures.
Sinopsis: La película no cuenta la historia del famoso Jesse James como víctima (como sí hacen Tierra de audaces o La verdadera historia de Jesse James), sino la caída en desgracia de su asesino, el tristemente famoso Bob Ford. Bob traiciona a su amigo para conseguir el perdón del gobierno y poder casarse con su novia Cynthy. Pero la mitificación del bandido James le lleva al ostracismo y a ser despreciado por la mujer que amaba. (FILMAFFINITY)
Primera película de Samuel Fuller, basada muy libremente en el caso real (un rótulo al inicio del film así lo indica; carece, pues, de ánimos historicistas). No se trata en absoluto de una cinta de acción sino de una tragedia amorosa, teñida por una fotografía lúgubre, que cambia la óptica de una historia mil veces narrada y mitificada, poniéndose ahora en lugar del villano, reconvertido además en víctima. Una obra atípica en el cine de la época y de apreciable valor. Exhibida por televisión como "Yo maté a Jesse James". Rodada en diez días (Carlos Diaz Maroto).
AMG Synopsis: This dark, gloomy Western chronicles the shame and self-destruction of Bob Ford, the real-life James Gang member that murdered Jesse James for the reward money. In this fictionalized account, James (Reed Hadley) tends to Ford (John Ireland) after he is wounded during a heist. When Ford's longtime love, Cynthy (Barbara Britton), gains a new admirer, he decides that settling down and buying a farm is the only way to win her for himself. He learns that the governor issued a 10,000-dollar reward and amnesty for Jesse's murder, and, after some deliberation, shoots his savior in the back when the outlaw turns to straighten a painting. Neither the government nor Cynthy takes kindly to his treachery: Ford is jailed, collects only 500 dollars, and is dumped. He is reduced to re-enacting the infamous murder in a stage show, hearing a traveling minstrel sing about his dirty deed, and running from the would-be gunfighters that hope to kill the man who shot Jesse James. The film follows Ford's vain attempts to achieve redemption and win back Cynthia's heart. I Shot Jesse James suffered through several casting related problems. Producer Robert L. Lippert refused to hire Lawrence Tierney, director Fuller's first choice to portray Ford. Barbara Woodell replaced Ann Doran as Jesse James' wife only days before production. Lastly, casting director, Yolanda Molinari's, name was misspelled "Yolondo" in the film's opening credits, making many believe that she was a man.
AMG Review: The idea for Samuel Fuller's I Shot Jesse James arose from the fledgling writer/director's interest in Cassius' murderous betrayal of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C. When producer Robert L. Lippert vetoed the development of a period film about "men in bed sheets" and warned Fuller that he would only be allowed to helm a picture if its costs were low, the director opted for a more recent and lower budget tale of treachery: the shooting death of Jesse James at the hands of fellow gang member, Robert Ford. Based on Homer Croy's short stories and shot in only ten days, the film emerged as a grim, emotional study of disloyalty that thrives on its meager production value. Every "intellectual" postwar Western claims to expose the psychology of its characters. I Shot Jesse James' austerity, spare dialogue, and two-dimensional sets support its refreshing assertion that the standard motivations for betrayal -- greed, jealousy, or love -- are all there is to uncover.
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