Days of Jesse James

USA 1939
produced by
Joseph Kane (associate) for Republic
directed by Joseph Kane
starring Roy Rogers, George Hayes (= Gabby Hayes), Don 'Red' Barry, Pauline Moore, Harry Woods, Arthur Loft, Wade Boteler, Ethel Wales, Harry Worth, Glenn Strange, Olin Howland, Monte Blue, Jack Rockwell, Fred Burns, Mary Bayless, Carl Sepulveda, Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
story by Jack Natteford, screenplay by Earle Snell

Jesse James

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Both railroad detective Worthington (Harry Woods) and bank detective Roy Rogers - who is soon joined by his sidekick Gabby (Gabby Hayes) - are after Jesse James (Red Barry), who is believed to have robbed a bank. But while Worthington is only after the reward money and even risks the lives of Jesse's mother (Ethel Wales), stepdad (Wade Boteler) and half-brother (Scotty Beckett) toget to Jesse (without success), Roy and Gabby soon start to have doubts if it was Jesse who robbed the bank (the audience already knows it wasn't), so they infiltrate the James-gang, only to eventually find out that Jesse and his brother Frank (Harry Worth) are honourable men - gangsters yes, but still honourable gangsters -, who simply couldn't have robbed the bank because they were somewhere completely else.

 And soon enough, Roy and Gabby find out that it was the very owners of that bank who robbed their own bank and just wanted to make it look as if it was the James gang to get away with the money scot-free. So Roy and Gabby rob the train the fine bankers want to get away with and return the money to the good citizens who foolishly enough put their trust into the local bank - and they have the two bankers arrested at the very next station ...

Pauline Moore plays Gabby's daughter, who's (naturally) also Roy's love interest.

Nothing big but an ok B-Western, with Roy not singing all that much (and interrupting the story when doing so) for a change.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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