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Shot in the Back
- Narrated by: full cast, Terence Aselford, Todd Scofield, Drew Kopas, JW Rone, Eric Messner, Chris Genebach, Jeff Allin, Patrick Bussink, Tim Carlin, David Jourdan, Ken Jackson
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
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Another top western
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From the greatest western storytellers of our time comes a new twist on the legend of notorious outlaw Jesse James - who just might not have died on that fateful April 3, 1882.
1942 - Granbury, Texas. A 95-year-old man walks into a recruiting office with the crazy idea to enlist - and an even crazier story. He claims to be the one and only Jesse James, the infamous bank robber allegedly shot by Robert Ford 60 years earlier. Using another man’s corpse to collect the reward, Ford allowed James to slip away and start a new life. Changing his name to Dalton, Jesse worked as a cattle broker in Fort Worth and fathered a pair of twins named Bill and Frank.
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