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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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- Melvin Frank
- 1959-10-15
Jayhawkers is a 2014 American sports drama/biographical film directed by Kevin Willmott, following the life of Wilt Chamberlain, Phog Allen, and the 1956–57 Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team. Former Kansas basketball player Scot Pollard portrays B. H. Born in the film.
Jul 27, 2017 · The Jayhawkers! (1959) Mark Franklin July 27, 2017 1950s. 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.
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This film was very loosely based on the exploits of the "Jayhawkers," the name given to various groups based in Kansas before the Civil War. While some of the groups were abolitionists, others, under the guise of abolition, were bandits who raided their opponents in Kansas and neighboring states.
- Melvin Frank
- Jeff Chandler
The Jayhawkers! is directed by Melvin Frank and Frank shares writing duties with A. I. Bezzerides, Frank Fenton and Joe Petracca. It stars Jeff Chandler, Fess Parker, Nicole Maurey, Henry Silva, Leo Gordon and Frank DeKova. Music is by Jerome Moross and cinematography by Loyal Griggs. Territory of Kansas . . . Shortly before the Civil War.
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Jul 16, 2020 · The real-life Nathan Davis wrote and performed the score for “Jayhawkers”; he was in fact a student at Kansas at the same time as Chamberlain, a jazz enthusiast, and—as the movie shows ...
