Jeff Chandler
Luke Darcy
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- 1959 · Western · 1h 40m
The Jayhawkers! is a 1959 American Technicolor VistaVision western film directed by Melvin Frank, starring Jeff Chandler as Luke Darcy and Fess Parker as Cam Bleeker. The film is set in pre-Civil War Kansas. Darcy leads a gang which seeks to take advantage of Bleeding Kansas (loosely based on abolitionist John Brown); Bleeker joins the gang
The Jayhawkers!: Directed by Melvin Frank. With Jeff Chandler, Fess Parker, Nicole Maurey, Henry Silva. Before the U.S. Civil War rebel leader Luke Darcy sees himself as leader of a new independent Republic of Kansas but the military governor sends an ex-raider to capture Darcy.
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- Western
- Melvin Frank
- 1959-10-15
Jayhawkers, Red Legs, and Bushwhackers are everyday terms in Kansas and Western Missouri. A Jayhawker is a Unionist who professes to rob, burn out and murder only rebels in arms against the government. A Red Leg is a Jayhawker originally distinguished by the uniform of red leggings.
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Before long, a posse arrives looking for Cam, and for the children's safety, he surrenders. He is brought before Governor William Clayton, who promises to return his freedom if he will find and capture Luke Darcy, the elusive leader of a powerful group of raiders called the Jayhawkers.
- Melvin Frank
- Jeff Chandler
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Fess Parker is Cam Bleeker, a former renegade who breaks out of prison and begins a desperate journey home, hopeful for a reunion with a wife rumored to be dead. He finds a woman in his former home, but it’s widowed immigrant Jeanne DuBouis (Nicole Maurey), not his wife.
Before the U.S. Civil War rebel leader Luke Darcy sees himself as leader of a new independent Republic of Kansas but the military governor sends an ex-raider to capture Darcy.
