Production

Jesse James Rides Again was budgeted at $149,967 although the final negative cost was $180,497 (a $30,530, or 20.4%, overspend).

It was filmed between 10 January and 5 February 1947. The serial’s production number was 1696.

This was one of only four 13-chapter serials to be released by Republic. Three of the four were released in 1947, the only original serials released in that year. The fourth serial of the year was a re-release of the 15-chapter, 1941 serial Jungle Girl. This marked the first time Republic had re-released a serial to add to their first run serial releases^.

Stunts

• Tom Steele as Jesse James (doubling Clayton Moore)
• Dale Van Sickel as Frank Lawton/James Clark (doubling Roy Barcroft & Tristram Coffin)

Special Effects

Special effects created by the Lydecker brothers.

Release

Theatrical

Jesse James Rides Again’s official release date is 2 August 1947, although this is actually the date the sixth chapter was made available to film exchanges.

The serial was re-released on 28 March 1955 between the first runs of Panther Girl of the Kongo and King of the Carnival.

Cast

• Clayton Moore as Jesse James
• Linda Stirling as Ann Bolton. It was during filming of this serial that Linda Stirling met her future husband Sloane Nibley.^[2]
• Roy Barcroft as Frank Lawton
• John Compton as Steve Lane
• Tristram Coffin as James Clark
• Tom London as Sam Bolton
• Holly Bane as Tim
• Edmund Cobb as Farmer Wilkie