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Rating: 6.3/10 by 125 users

The Return of Frank James (1940)

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

Directing:
  • Fritz Lang
  • Hal Herman
  • Aaron Rosenberg
Writing:
  • Sam Hellman
Stars:
Release Date: Sat, Aug 10, 1940

Rating: 6.3/10 by 125 users

Alternative Title:
O Retorno de Frank James - BR

Country:
United States of America
Language:
English
Runtime: 01 hour 32 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0

Plot Keyword: colorado, sequel, jesse james, revenge, 19th century, preserved film
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Henry Fonda
Frank James
Gene Tierney
Eleanor Stone
Henry Hull
Major Rufus Cobb
Eddie Collins
Station Agent
Charles Tannen
Charlie Ford
Lloyd Corrigan
Randolph Stone
Edward McWade
Colonel Jackson
Barbara Pepper
Nellie Blane
Bob Battier
Frank James in Play (uncredited)
A.S. Byron
Train Engineer (uncredited)
Kernan Cripps
Deputy (uncredited)
Rube Dalroy
Juror (uncredited)
Lester Dorr
Reporter (uncredited)
Tex Driscoll
Play Spectator (uncredited)
Edmund Elton
Jury Foreman (uncredited)
Budd Fine
Deputy (uncredited)
Almeda Fowler
Mrs. Edna Stone (uncredited)
Slim Gaut
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Sherry Hall
Court Clerk (uncredited)
Shep Houghton
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Milton Kibbee
Reporter (uncredited)
Kermit Maynard
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
Saloon Patron (uncredited)
Nelson McDowell
Confederate Veteran Juror (uncredited)
Robert McKenzie
Old Man on Rocker (uncredited)
Lew Meehan
Bailiff (uncredited)
Frank Melton
Reporter (uncredited)
Adrian Morris
Denver Detective (uncredited)
James C. Morton
Liberty Bartender (uncredited)
Hattie Noel
Denver House Chambermaid (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Denver House Bartender (uncredited)
Tex Phelps
Front-Row Play Spectator (uncredited)
Russ Powell
Juror (uncredited)
Allen D. Sewall
Old Timer (uncredited)
Cap Somers
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Dale Van Sickel
Reporter (uncredited)
Lillian Yarbo
Eleanor's Maid (uncredited)

CinemaSerf

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 hears that assassins Bob and Charlie Ford 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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