Walter Hill used the same type of fight in "The Long Riders" this time Cole Younger and Sam Starr where fighting, it was also the best part of that film. Interesting and colorful film dealing with the bloody Bushwackers , including the Lawrence massacre . 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. Audey Murphy heads up the James gang in this strange and pointless tale about the Kansas Raiders. Even Jesse James' most ardent supporters would be hard-pressed to place their hero in that category.
In addition, he was also decorated for bravery by the governments of France and Belgium, and was credited with killing over 240 German soldiers and wounding and capturing many more. Was this review helpful? 4 out of 5 found this helpful. 1 out of 7 found this helpful. Only seldom were the victims of their attacks actual Red Legs. Was this review helpful? 20 out of 34 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Among his 33 awards was the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest award for bravery that a soldier can receive.
Don't watch this for history, or accuracy, and you might enjoy this movie, featuring very young Audie Murphy, Tony Curtis, and Richard Long. There's a nice performance by Brian Donlevy as Quantrill and on looking at the cast as the movie starts, was quite taken by seeing Tony Curtis listed as the fifth name, here playing Kit Dalton, one of Murphy's pals. Kansas Raiders was an opportunity for Universal-International to display some of its young contract players of the time to see who might have some career potential. 11 out of 28 found this helpful. As I understand it, James was a cold blooded individual, where here, Murphy keeps having twinges of sympathy and romantic notions. 0 out of 1 found this helpful. As a result, Jesse threatens to quit, but doesn't see how his small friendship group can be very effective in accomplishing his purpose. 6 out of 9 found this helpful. See more ideas about Raiders, Kansas, Richard long. He also falls in love with Quantrill's wife. When they finally join Quantrill, Jesse gets involved in a "handkerchief" fight where each man has to hold on his mouth a part of the handkerchief, while they fight with "Bowie" knives.
I caught this movie on AMC's Saturday Morning Western. I'm not disputing the historical accuracy of Jesse James riding with Quantrill's Raiders during the Civil War, in fact, at the start of the war, he would only have been about fourteen. My mother and I love classic movies and there are several titles, including Kansas Raiders, that she would like to have. Was this review helpful? 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. Y eso hace Enright en este film, donde no hay tiempo para reflexionar sobre la historia, simplemente se escribe. In terms of career longevity all of them had varying degrees of success. Was this review helpful? Don't be fooled into thinking people of those times were naive enough to believe the hogwash. Reasons she likes the movie are the setting (Civil War period), she likes Audie Murphy since she was growing up during WWII, when he was quite a hero, and she likes films about war and full of action. Was this review helpful?
Brian Donlevy, who could play a rotten apple as well as anyone, has the thankless role of Quantrill. Besides being far too old for the part, he seems to have about as much enthusiasm for being in this film as he would shoveling snow during a blizzard. That is not his idea of war, so he gets in conflict with Quantrill. 16 out of 18 found this helpful. Unfortunately, this film takes dramatic license to the extreme and is pure nonsense from start to finish. Kansas Raiders (1950) Trivia. Yes, James realises that Quantrill is just a low life, but his response to it all is to becomes a bank robber. The key to this medium is the *camera*, not the actors or the just the action devoid of context. For those that don't know their history Kansas and parts of Missouri were divided between slave owning Confederates and 'Yankee' settlers. Was this review helpful? "Kansas Raiders" opens with an exemplary montage that encapsulates the American Civil War. The "heroes" of this film were in reality murdering outlaw bank robbers that would today be called "sociopaths." The unstated theme of this film is to dramatize the outlawry of William Quantrill(Brian Donlevy) in Kansas and western Missouri, primarily, and to suggest his influence on the subsequent criminal careers of Jesse and Frank James, the Younger Brothers and the Dalton gang, as an apparently cohesive buddy group within Quantrill's raiders. Was this review helpful? She would be grateful to hear from anyone who can help guide her in purchasing this film. 11 out of 23 found this helpful. In this film Murphy starts out as he means to go on by quickly joining up with Quantrill with no more reason than he hates the Union and his gang want some of the lawless action going around. After all it is a movie. "Kansas Raiders" is supposed to be about Jesse James' early career when he purportedly rode with Quantrill's Raiders during the Civil War. About the only thing factual about this movie is that, for a short while, Jesse and Frank and Cole Younger did fight as Confederate Guerrillas. One never really knows and to this extent you can't really ever buy into the terrible storyline.