I just watched the recent TCM showing of this film and I did enjoy it. I'm not sure if I missed something and I don't know the history of the real events that took place in the lives of these outlaws, but who was it that told authorities about the gang's plan to rob the Northfield bank? Was it Ed Miller?
sharein the movie the bank teller says it was the pinkertons who warned the townspeople. in reality.........i dont know.
shareIn at least one other movie version of the Northfield story (with Robert Duvall as Jesse James), it was suggested that the whole thing was a setup to trap the gang. But in factual accounts of the robbery, it is generally held that the gang were thwarted by the spontaneous action of ordinary citizens.
shareactully in real life no one sold the gang out, that teller just slowed them down long enough for townspeople to get suspicous of so many men and when one of citizens was shot they knew and opened fire and there went the northfield fight, im a big fan of western stuff and jesse james.
shareThe Northfield residents were prepared for such occaisions and it wasn't known until later it was the James gang. I think what really did in the gang is their assumption that robbing the bank would be a simple thing.
It is also said that if Jesse had only tried to open the safe by turning the handle, he would've discovered it wasn't locked at all.
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Good question. I have always wondered that too. This is one of my favorite westerns. I loved David Carradine as Cole Younger. So much that I named my son Coleman.
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