The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

1972

Action / Drama / Western

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 73% · 11 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 46% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 2374 2.4K

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Plot summary

The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but things do not go as planned.


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Robert Duvall as Jesse James
Paul Frees as Narrator
Lynn Borden as Kate's Girl
Cliff Robertson as Cole Younger
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by hitchcockthelegend 6 / 10

Quirky yet grim?

The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid is written and directed by Philip Kaufman and stars Cliff Robertson, Robert Duvall, Luke Askew and R.G. Armstrong. It's a Technicolor production with Bruce Surtees the cinematographer and music is scored by Dave Grusin. Plot is based around the James-Younger gang's infamous attempt at robbing the "biggest bank west of Mississippi" in Northfield, Minnesota, September 7th, 1876.

The Western done cinéma vérité by Philip Kaufman, very much leaning towards the "mud and rags" Oaters that were filing in post Sam Peckinpah's Wild Bunch. Jesse James has provided the inspiration for a whole host of movies, with many of them having different interpretations on the man, the myth and his life. Kaufman dismantles the myth aspect and cloaks it in a sort of satirical grimness, flecking it with moments of crudeness whilst paying attention to history (the usual liberties aside) and the changing climate of the time. However, with Kaufman's affection for comic book characters also comes the odd blending of tones, rendering the film an acquired taste. The narrative is strong, with the added bonus of the story continuing after the robbery, and Duvall gives Jesse James an energetic and bonkers makeover. But a safe recommendation to Western fans it is not.

I liked it enough, but not enough in that I could watch it again, but it would come as no surprise to me if it was some Western purists' favourite Western. Roll the dice and take a chance, really. 6/10

Reviewed by classicsoncall 7 / 10

"The whole country's gonna talk about this forever and ever."

Just like his contemporary Billy the Kid, Jesses James has become the subject of a myriad of books and films. Heck, even Roy Rogers made a couple ("Days of Jesse James", "Jesse James at Bay") that capitalized on the name but didn't really have anything to do with the real life outlaw. This film actually turns the James-Younger Gang into the Younger-James Gang, with Cliff Robertson headlining the cast as Cole Younger and Robert Duvall taking a back seat as a maniacal, God-fearing Confederate sympathizer still fighting the Civil War.

The picture provides an interesting diversion with that new fangled national sport called baseball. The first time I ever saw a ball game in a Western was in a Richard Boone episode of 'Have Gun Will Travel'. In that one, a base runner was shot attempting to stretch a team mate's hit to score at home plate and was summarily shot by an opposing player. I was fully expecting to see that here, but the game stayed civilized with only full body contact used to thwart the opposition. One wonders why they needed an umpire.

Back in Northfield proper, the outlaws prove that robbing a bank can indeed be a shovel ready job. If the true history of the raid included a gang member getting locked in the bank safe, I'd never heard of it before. It didn't seem plausible to me even if it did happen, but I'm intrigued enough to look it up later. For revisionist Western fans, this one will prove to have some merit, though for my money, I'll take the 1980 Walter Hill flick "The Long Riders" with that amazingly choreographed slow motion horse jump through the windows for the getaway. Now that was a wonderment.

Reviewed by boblipton 6 / 10

Times Change And People Don't

Cole Younger (Cliff Robertson), Jesse James (Robert Duvall) and their gangs get together to rob a bank. They figure it will be an easy job. With their many desperadoes, who will oppose them?

Philip Kaufman's third movie as a writer-director tries for a Sam Peckinpah sort of movie, covering the passing of the old west into modernity, with crazes like baseball and steam calliopes amidst the mud. He gets a different effect, however. While Peckinpah's characters know the times they are a-changin', Kaufman's are doing work at the same old stand with their old, rough, practical morality, which cannot stand before the easier, richer forces of civilization moving in from the east. In many ways, Kaufman's is a better movie; instead of the characters talking about the changes, Kaufman shows them to the audience, allowing us to draw our own conclusions. It is in the delineation of character, however, that Kaufman is Peckinpah's inferior. The people who occupy his world are not as bright, not as contemplative. The villains -- the bankers, the landlords -- are clearly uncomfortable in their heavy, ill-fitting clothes, while the heroes -- the Younger-James gang -- are sentimental rather than hewing to a moral or ethical code. There's no one to admire, even in part. Rather than moments of elation, every encounter between the two groups seems a disappointing, temporary victory.

I expect that was Kaufman's intention: to produce a minor-key tragedy, instead of an elegy. However, it's a series of unhappy events, rather than a portrayal of the punishment of hubris.

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