Kansas Raiders

5/9/2017

More recruits for the butcher brigade! Kansas Raiders is directed by Ray Enright and written by Robert Richards. It stars Audie Murphy, Brian Donlevy, Marguerite Chapman, James Best, Scott Brady and Tony Curtis. A Technicolor production, music is by Milton Rosen and cinematography by Irving Glassberg. Plot has it that the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton, join Quantrill's Raiders after witnessing at first hand some Redleg atrocities. However, after believing they would be fighting soldiers for the war effort, the men find themselves participating in equally worse war crimes - something that deeply affects the young Jesse James. OK, it's very fanciful in the telling of a bitter and sad period of American history. Facts of the period and the characters are jettisoned in

3/9/2026

The principled young Jesse James (Audie Murphy) and his brother Frank (Richard Long) are disgusted by the lawlessness they are seeing during the US Civil war and so together with three of their friends, they set off to join the raiders commanded by Col. Quantrill (Brian Donlevy) and whose substantial force of marauders is causing no end of trouble to the Yankee army. The thing is, though, that once they are fully integrated into this man’s private army, they begin to realise that his policies are hardly less brutal. Fortunately, the Colonel has taken a liking to him, as has “Kate” (Marguerite Chapman) - in an entirely platonic sense, and as the conflict between his idealism and the realities of an advancing troop of bluecoats reaches boiling point, the James brothers have some deciding to