A psychologically complex and visually stunning (some of the most intense close-ups in film history) version of Bob Ford's murder of Jesse James.

“I wanted to do the portrait of a killer. I have always asked myself what possesses a man to kill his fellow man. It was one of the first attempts at Western psychology. Little action. Close-ups of faces. Historically, the beginning is true, the rest an invention. Bob Ford, like Jesse James, was a shabby, ill-educated fool, and stayed that way. But it was necessary to try and make him interesting.”