In 2007, Brad Pitt starred in the fact-based Western titled, clunkily but accurately, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Pitt played Jesse James, and Casey Affleck played his assassin, Robert Ford. Almost 60 years earlier, though, Samuel Fuller directed and co-wrote this 1949 Western, which told the same story. John Ireland stars as Ford in this one, and Reed Hadley plays James.