Alias Jesse James.
1959 Hope Enterprises & United Artists; now owned by MGM.
Starring: Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, James Garner, Fess Parker, Gary Cooper, Roy Rogers, Hugh O'Brien, James Arness
Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Part of the Bob Hope MGM Movie Legends Collection, available from Amazon.
Inept door-to-door insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth (Hope) has one more day to sell a policy for the Plymouth Rock Insurance Company, or he's fired. At a New York City bar, Milford unwittingly sells a $100,000 life insurance policy to a visiting Jesse James (Corey). After briefly thinking that he's saved his job, his boss Titus Queasley (Will Wright) finds out who Farnsworth sold the policy to. Queasley sends Milford west to get him to find Jesse James and talk him into cancelling the policy on such a high-risk client, or his death will bankrupt the company. If he can't do that, Farnsworth is told to act as Jesse's protector so he doesn't die, and his girlfriend Cora Lee Collins (Fleming) will not be able to collect.
Jesse James decides to bump off Farnsworth after dressing him up to look like the legendary outlaw, so he can marry Cora and collect the insurance money. Cora ends up falling for Milford, and they run off together, with the James Gang following them. As it turns out, Queasley telegraphed ahead for help, and a plethora of legendary western heroes and actors appear as their TV characters, or themselves, and they all manage to save Farnsworth's assets.
Recommended for a rainy day.
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