The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)

Directed by

Philip Kaufman

Genre

Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 56 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film follows the James-Younger Gang as they plan and carry out a bank robbery in Northfield, Minnesota in 1876. The story focuses on the outlaws and their attempts to pull off the heist.

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What happens

The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid is a 1972 American Western film about the James-Younger Gang. Distributed by Universal Pictures, it was written and directed by Philip Kaufman in a cinéma vérité style and stars Cliff Robertson. The film purports to recreate the James-Younger Gang's most infamous escapade, the September 7, 1876 robbery of "the biggest bank west of the Mississippi", in Northfield, Minnesota. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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