Fresh
For all its flaws, The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid is the kind of first movie so rich in texture and invention that we can look forward to a lot more from Philip Kaufman.
Jay Cocks, TIME Magazine
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
The West the way it really was!
1972 · 1h 31m · PG
Drama, Western
Directed by
Philip Kaufman
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Philip Kaufman Director
- 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
- Matt Clark as Bob Younger
- Wayne Sutherlin as Charley Pitts
- Arthur Peterson as Jefferson Jones
- Barry Brown as Henry Wheeler
- Dana Elcar as Allen
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
67%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A lovely, odd sort of middle Western. That is, it's neither conventional Western fiction nor completely documented fact, although it makes full use of history and is as crammed with the artifacts of 19th-century America.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
[The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid] may be a valiant attempt but fails to come off.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
Interesting for its demonstration of how exploitative capitalism leads simple-minded farmers' boys into outlawry, though somewhat marred by Duvall's manic interpretation of the role of Jesse James.
Time Out
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