THE DINGUS PROJECT
Jesse James in Film #17

Jesse James makes a brief and strange appearance in this patriotic comedy teamed with the fathers of the American Revolution. The odd gathering of ghosts plot to get a small-town bookkeeper out of jail. His crime? He is an honest man working for a crooked government.

We came, we stayed, we’re coming back. Congressman Harry Hibbard turned down a seat on the US Supreme Court to live here. Some say he still walks the halls of his Federalist mansion. His friend President Franklin Pierce visited, back when Bath, NH was in its hey-day. Today it is far off the beaten path, which is exactly what we like best.

THE DINGUS PROJECT
Jesse James in Film #16

Pitched as "The West the way it really was!" this stoned-out 1970s western is anything but accurate. Dreamy and rambling, the film focuses on Cole Younger rather than Jesse James. It does capture interesting psychological portraits of Jesse and Cole, but the otherwise talented director/ writer Philip Kaufman misfires here with almost every shot.

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Jesse James in Film #15

A young Southern man from Missouri joins the rebel bushwackers during the Civil War. What he sees in the bloody guerilla warfare leads him to question his allegiance to the rebel cause. Yet Ang Lee’s compassionate film offers insights into the minds of young men like Jesse James, trapped in a violent world that tore the western states apart.