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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.
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The New Hollywood era of the 1970s was defined by its relentless deconstruction of Old West myths, as filmmakers sought to dismantle the romanticised tropes of traditional Westerns. Iconic outlaws like Jesse James, previously portrayed as Robin Hood-esque heroes or tragic rebels, were subjected to revisionist scrutiny. The James-Younger Gang, in particular, had been mythologised in countless films as symbols of Sout…More
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