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The Return of Frank James

6.4NR

MovieWestern19401h 32m

Encore triumph from 20th Century-Fox.

Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

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Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.

Directed by
Fritz Lang
Written by
Sam Hellman
Genres
Western
Released
August 10, 1940
Runtime
1h 32m
Status
Released
Language
English
Countries
United States of America
Studios
20th Century Fox
  • Henry FondaFrank James
  • Jackie CooperClem
  • Gene TierneyEleanor Stone
  • Henry HullMajor Rufus Cobb
  • John CarradineBob Ford
  • J. Edward BrombergGeorge Runyan
  • Donald MeekMcCoy
  • Eddie CollinsStation Agent
  • George BarbierJudge
  • Russell HicksProsecutor
  • Ernest WhitmanPinky
  • Charles TannenCharlie Ford
  • Lloyd CorriganRandolph Stone
  • Victor KilianPreacher
  • Edward McWadeColonel Jackson
  • George ChandlerRoy
  • Irving BaconBystander
  • Frank ShannonSheriff
  • Barbara PepperNellie Blane
  • Louis MasonWatchman

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  • CinemaSerf★ 6April 4, 2022
    Henry Hull's "Maj. Cobb" steals this rather unremarkable follow up to the previous year's much superior "Jesse James". This time, surviving brother Frank (Henry Fonda) hears that assassins Bob (John Carradine) and Charlie Ford (Charles Tannen) have been convicted of his brother's murder - but that they have been pardoned. He sets off to avenge this travesty but along the way finds himself and the young "Clem" (Jackie…Read more

    Henry Hull's "Maj. Cobb" steals this rather unremarkable follow up to the previous year's much superior "Jesse James". This time, surviving brother Frank (Henry Fonda) hears that assassins Bob (John Carradine) and Charlie Ford (Charles Tannen) have been convicted of his brother's murder - but that they have been pardoned. He sets off to avenge this travesty but along the way finds himself and the young "Clem" (Jackie Cooper) involved in a bank robbery that sees his old retainer "Pinky" (Ernest Whitman) set to swing after the watchman is accidentally killed. Determined to avert that he engages "Cobb" as his lawyer and turns himself in. The twenty minutes or so in the courtroom are a bit of an amusing tour-de-force for the old newspaper man; he plays the jury like a fiddle and the judge (George Barbier) seems pretty complicit as railroad man "McCoy" (Donald Meek) finds he has few friends in them thar parts. The ending is a bit weak, indeed the whole thing is rather an unnecessary sequel, but it's still worth it for the entertaining antics of "Maj. Cobb".

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