Jesse James: From Outlaw to Make-Believe Movie Hero
Murdering rebel resurrected as sympathetic cinema protagonist

Murdering rebel resurrected as sympathetic cinema protagonist


A future NH governor took control of all give downtown Portsmouth cinemas

It's easy to confuse reality with movies.

Louis de Rochemont newsreels used fakery to dramatize facts

Romance and a possible suicide aboard the Hollywood Mayflower in 1952

They evoke a spirit of the past that never happened and teach us nothing

The 1873 Smuttynose murders were too complex for the novel or film

An interview with director Stacey Keach about his close-to-history drama

He got one film long ago played by an unlikely tall romantic lead

Previously unseen records reveal failed WWII business deals

De Rochemont experimented with cinerama twice

