The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

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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.

The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield, Minnesota.

Director: Philip Kaufman
Writer: Philip Kaufman
Stars: Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall, Luke Askew

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