Alias Jesse James
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Alias Jesse James (1959)

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Inept insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a $100,000 policy. When his boss learns the man was Jesse James he sends Milford after him with money to buy back the policy. After a masked Jesse robs Milford of the money, Milford's boss heads out with more money. Jesse learns about it and plans to rob him, have Milford dressed as him get killed in the robbery, and then collect ...( show more )
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Directed By
Norman Z. McLeod
Produced By
Bob Hope
Jack Hope
Kent McCray
Runtime
92 min
Language/Color
English / C
Release Year
1959
Genre
Comedy,Western
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as Milford Farnsworth
as Cora Lee Collins
as Jesse James
as Princess Irawanie (as Gloria Talbot)
as Frank James
as Titus Queasley
as 'Ma' James
as Tough #2 in Dirty Dog Saloon
as James Gang member
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*** o/o ****

I don't know much about Bob Hope except that he was a famous comedian in a time when the majority of TV shows and movies were westerns. Although "Alias Jesse James" was produced 15 years before Mel Brooks Blazing Saddles , it is still an equally enjoyable western-comedy.

Mel Brooks plays Milford Farnsworth, an insurance salesman from New York whose career is failing. Farnsworth unknowingly sells a life-insurance policy to Jesse James (Wendell Corey) at a bar. When his employer finds out that Jesse James is a policy holder in the company, he sends Farnsworth to...more

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