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The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid 1972 poster.jpg
1972 Theatrical Poster
Directed by Philip Kaufman
Produced by Jennings Lang
Written by Philip Kaufman
Starring Cliff Robertson
Robert Duvall
Narrated by Paul Frees
Music by Dave Grusin
Cinematography Bruce Surtees
Edited by Douglas Stewart
Production
company
Robertson and Associates
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • May 12, 1972 (1972-05-12)
Running time
91 minutes
Country United States
Language English

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid is a 1972 Technicolor Western film about the James-Younger Gang distributed by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Philip Kaufman in a cinéma vérité style and starred Cliff Robertson as Cole Younger, Robert Duvall as Jesse James, Luke Askew as Jim Younger, R. G. Armstrong as Clell Miller, John Pearce as Frank James, and Matt Clark as Bob Younger. The film purports to recreate the James-Younger Gang's most infamous escapade, the September 7, 1876, robbery of "the biggest bank west of the Mississippi" in Northfield, Minnesota.

In the mid-1870s, outlaws Jesse James, Cole Younger and their brothers are granted amnesty by the Missouri legislature, sympathetic to the troubles created for all citizens by the American Civil War. The bankers victimized by the James and Younger gangs are vehemently opposed to this action and hire a Pinkerton agent to follow the outlaws' every move.

Younger has put aside plans to rob a bank in Northfield, Minnesota, said to be the largest west of the Mississippi River. The job appeals, however, to Jesse and Frank James, who have no intention of changing the way they make a living.


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