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Alias Jesse James is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Norman Z. McLeod released in USA on 20 march 1959 with Bob Hope

Alias Jesse James (1959)

Alias Jesse James
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Released in USA 20 march 1959
Length 1h32
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Action,    Western
Rating63% 3.195613.195613.195613.195613.19561

Alias Jesse James is a 1959 American Western comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod (his last) and starring Bob Hope and Rhonda Fleming. Based on a story by Robert St. Aubrey and Bert Lawrence, the film is about an outlaw who tries to kill an insurance agent who has been mistaken for him in order to collect on a big policy. Costumes by Edith Head.

Synopsis

Milford Farnsworth (Hope) is a bumbling insurance agent who unknowingly sells a life insurance policy to the outlaw Jesse James (Wendell Corey). Farnsworth is sent out West to protect the insurance company's investment by "protecting" James.

Actors

Bob Hope

(Milford Farnsworth)
Rhonda Fleming

(Cora Lee Collins)
Will Wright

(Titus Queasley)
Wendell Corey

(Jesse James)
Jim Davis

(Frank James)
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