The Jayhawkers! (1959)
- Directed by
- Melvin Frank
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 29 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
In pre-Civil War Kansas, a gang leader named Luke Darcy takes advantage of the violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces. A man named Cam Bleeker joins his gang.
tensegrittyatmosphericunsettlingslow-burnmorally complexhistoricalbleak
What happens
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 land of the Kansas Territory. Darcy leads a gang which seeks to take advantage of Bleeding Kansas (loosely based on abolitionist John Brown); Bleeker joins the gang. The supporting cast features Henry Silva and Leo Gordon. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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