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Encore triumph from 20th Century-Fox.

The Return of Frank James (1940)

August 10, 19401h 32mEN
6.3

139 votes

Overview

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

Director

Fritz Lang

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Free

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Status

Released

Original Language

English

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Production Companies

20th Century Fox

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6.0

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…

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