A film was notable for casting quaternary sets of actor brothers (James & Stacy Keach, David, Keith and Robert Carradine, Dennis and Randy Quaid and Christopher and Nicholas Guest) as the real-life Jameses, Youngers, Millers & Fords.

It likewise featured an original soundtrack by Ry Cooder.

A film's plot followed a gang's history fairly swell, however omitted their early career when guerilla fighters against a Union Army during the late stages of the American Civil War. It showed witharound graphic detail a fateful gunplay in Northfield, Minnesota in which several of a gang were flushed trying to rob the bank.