The Return of Frank James Poster

The Return of Frank James (1940)

NR 08/10/1940 Western 1h 32m
63%
User
Score
6.6/10
71%

Encore triumph from 20th Century-Fox.

Overview

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

Fritz Lang

Director

Sam Hellman

Screenplay

Part of the James Brothers Collection

Includes The Return of Frank James and other great movies.

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Top Billed Cast

Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda

Frank James

Jackie Cooper

Jackie Cooper

Clem

Gene Tierney

Gene Tierney

Eleanor Stone

Henry Hull

Henry Hull

Major Rufus Cobb

John Carradine

John Carradine

Bob Ford

J. Edward Bromberg

J. Edward Bromberg

George Runyan

Donald Meek

Donald Meek

McCoy

Eddie Collins

Eddie Collins

Station Agent

George Barbier

George Barbier

Judge

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on April 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 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 (Geo...

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