--- title: 'I Shot Jesse James (1949)' type: 'film' director: 'Samuel Fuller' released: '1949-02-26' runtime_minutes: 81 genres: - 'History' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/i-shot-jesse-james-1949' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041497/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # I Shot Jesse James (1949) 1949 · 81 min · History · United States ## Synopsis I Shot Jesse James is a 1949 American Western film starring Reed Hadley as Jesse James and John Ireland as Bob Ford. Directed by Samuel Fuller in his debut behind the camera, it portrays the murder of Jesse James by Robert Ford and Robert Ford's life afterwards. The story is built around a fictional rivalry between Ford and his eventual killer, Edward O'Kelley, over a woman. ## Credits - **Original Music Composer:** [Albert Glasser](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-glasser) - **Director:** [Samuel Fuller](https://cinepixo.com/people/samuel-fuller) - **Screenplay:** [Samuel Fuller](https://cinepixo.com/people/samuel-fuller) - **Director of Photography:** [Ernest Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/ernest-miller-2) ## Cast - [J. Edward Bromberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/j-edward-bromberg) - [Byron Foulger](https://cinepixo.com/people/byron-foulger) - [Reed Hadley](https://cinepixo.com/people/reed-hadley) - [Albert Glasser](https://cinepixo.com/people/albert-glasser) - [Tommy Noonan](https://cinepixo.com/people/tommy-noonan) - [Tom Tyler](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-tyler) - [John Ireland](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-ireland) - [Preston Foster](https://cinepixo.com/people/preston-foster) - [Jeni Le Gon](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeni-le-gon) - [Victor Kilian](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-kilian) - [Barbara Britton](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-britton) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/i-shot-jesse-james-1949 Film facts: Wikidata (Q577617); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.