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Alias Jesse James is a 1959 American Western comedy film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Bob Hope and Rhonda Fleming. Based on a story by Robert St. Aubrey and Bert Lawrence, the film is about an outlaw who tries to kill an insurance agent who has been mistaken for him in order to collect on a big policy. Costumes by Edith Head.
Alias Jesse James: Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. With Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Gloria Talbott. Outlaw T.J. "Jesse" James tries to kill insurance agent Milford Farnsworth, who has been mistaken for him in order to collect on a big policy.
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When a life insurance salesman sells a policy to the notorious criminal, Jesse James, he must protect his client until he can get his money back. Subtitles: English. Starring: Wendell Corey Jim Davis Rhonda Fleming Bob Hope. Directed by: Norman Z. McLeod.
Bob Hope is life insurance salesman Farnsworth, in Missouri to buy back the policy he sold to Jesse James (Wendell Corey), whom he doesn't realize robbed his train earlier, and who visits with his bombshell fianceè Cora (Rhonda Fleming), in the Western comedy Alias Jesse James, 1959.
Foolish life insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth (Bob Hope) commits his biggest blunder yet when he unwittingly offers a six-figure policy to notorious gunslinger Jesse James (Wendell Corey).
- Comedy
Trivia. FAQ. IMDbPro. All topics. Plot. Alias Jesse James. Summaries. Outlaw T.J. "Jesse" James tries to kill insurance agent Milford Farnsworth, who has been mistaken for him in order to collect on a big policy. Inept insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a $100,000 policy.
English. Bob Hope plays a 19th-century insurance agent whose miserable sales record prompts his boss to send him out West, where he can (supposedly) do little harm. H...
Bob Hope is Milford Farnsworth, a down-on-his-luck insurance salesman desperate to sell a policy. He meets a man in a bar back East and talks him into taking out a $100,000 in life insurance. What he doesn’t know is that the man is the notorious outlaw, Jesse James (Wendell Corey).
Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent to buy back the policy, but is robbed by Jesse.
