Adventures of Frank and Jesse James

Infobox Film
name = Adventures of Frank and Jesse James


director =Fred C. Brannon
Yakima Canutt
producer =Franklin Adreon
writer =Franklin Adreon
Basil Dickey
Sol Shor
starring =Clayton Moore
Steve Darrell
Noel Neill
George J. Lewis
John Crawford
Sam Flint
cinematography =John MacBurnie
distributor =Republic Pictures
released = Flagicon|USA 30 October 1948 "(serial)"cite book
last = Mathis
first = Jack
title = Valley of the Cliffhangers Supplement
origyear = 1995
publisher = Jack Mathis Advertising
isbn = 0-9632878-1-8
pages = pp. 3, 10, 106-107
chapter = ]
Flagicon|USA 16 April 1956 "(re-release)"

runtime = 13 chapters / 180 minutes "(serial)"

language =
budget = $149,985 (negative cost: $149,805)
amg_id = 1:945
imdb_id =0040077

"Adventures of Frank and Jesse James" (1948) is a Republic film serial.

Cast

* Clayton Moore as Jesse James AKA John Howard
* Steve Darrell as Frank James AKA Bob Carroll
* Noel Neill as Judy Powell
* George J. Lewis as Rafe Henley
* John Crawford as Amos Ramsey
* Sam Flint as Paul Thatcher

Production

"Adventures of Frank and Jesse James" was budgeted at $149,985 although the final negative cost was $149,805 (a $180, or 0.1%, under spend). It was the cheapest Republic serial of 1948, despite having one more chapter than the other two serials.

It was filmed between 5 April and 26 April 1948. The serial's production number was 1700.

This was the fourth of only four 13-chapter serials to be released by Republic. The previous three were released in 1947, the only original serials released in that year.

Release

Theatrical

"Adventures of Frank and Jesse James"' official release date is 30 October 1948, although this is actually the date the sixth chapter was made available to film exchanges.

This was followed by a re-release of "Darkest Africa", re-titled as "King of Jungleland", instead of a new serial. The next new serial, "Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc.", followed in 1949.

The serial was re-released on 16 April 1956 between the similar re-releases of "Manhunt of Mystery Island" and "King of the Rocket Men". The last original Republic serial release was "King of the Carnival" in 1955.

tunts

* Tom Steele as Jesse James (doubling Clayton Moore)
* Dale Van Sickel as Rafe Henley (doubling George J. Lewis)

pecial effects

* Lydecker brothers

Chapter titles

# Agent of Treachery (20min)
# The Hidden Witness (13min 20s)
# The Lost Tunnel (13min 20s)
# Blades of Death (13min 20s)
# Roaring Wheels (13min 20s)
# Passage to Danger (13min 20s)
# The Secret Code (13min 20s)
# Doomed Cargo (13min 20s)
# The Eyes of the Law (13min 20s)
# The Stolen Body (13min 20s)
# Suspicion/The Death Trap (13min 20s) ["Suspicion" is recorded as the title of the eleventh chapter in William C. Cline's In the Nick of Time while "The Death Trap" is recorded as the title in Jack Mathis' Valley of the Cliffhangers Supplement.] - a re-cap chapter
# Talk or Die! (13min 20s)
# Unmasked (13min 20s)_Source: [cite book
last = Cline
first = William C.
title = In the Nick of Time
origyear = 1984
publisher = McFarland & Company, Inc.
isbn = 078640471X
pages = pp. 247
chapter = Filmography ]

ee also

* List of film serials by year
* List of film serials by studio
* Jesse James Rides Again (1947) - Earlier Jesse James Serial
* The James Brothers of Missouri (1949)- Later Jesse James Serial

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0040077|title=Adventures of Frank and Jesse James

###@@@KEY@@@###succession box
title=Republic Serial
before=Dangers of the Canadian Mounted (1948)
years=Adventures of Frank and Jesse James (1948)
after=Federal Agents vs. Underworld, Inc (1949)