Alias Jesse James (1959) on Netflix
Approved19591h 32mComedyRomanceWestern
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a $100,000 policy to the outlaw Jesse James without knowing it. Sent west to buy it back, he is robbed by a masked Jesse James.
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Milford Farnsworth, a bumbling insurance agent, unknowingly sells a life policy to the outlaw Jesse James. When the company learns who holds the policy, Milford's boss sends him west with money to buy it back. A masked Jesse robs him of the cash. Milford's boss then heads out with more money. Jesse learns of that and plans to rob him, put Milford in Jesse's clothes during the robbery, see him killed there, and collect the $100,000.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Alias Jesse James (1959)
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- Some later versions of the film dropped several of the Western-star cameos because of legal problems over the rights; Bob Hope's clout had gathered the screen cowboys for the original, and the 2007 MGM Movie Legends DVD restored all of them.
- William Bowers and Bud Beauchamp wrote the screenplay in just four weeks, working from a story that star Bob Hope owned.
