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The Return of Frank James (1940)

 -  Western  -  16 August 1940 (USA)
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Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse.

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Eleanor Stone
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Clem
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Major Rufus Cobb
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J. Edward Bromberg ...
George Runyan
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McCoy
Eddie Collins ...
Station Agent
George Barbier ...
Judge
Russell Hicks ...
Prosecutor
Ernest Whitman ...
Pinky
Charles Tannen ...
Lloyd Corrigan ...
Randolph Stone
Victor Kilian ...
Preacher
Edward McWade ...
Colonel Jackson
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Frank James sets out to find the men who killed his brother. When the killers are pardoned, he takes matters into his own hands. The reporter who hopes to tell his story winds up in love with him. Written by Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>

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Western

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16 August 1940 (USA)  »

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Le retour de Frank James  »

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(Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

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The original treatment had Frank romantically interested in the reporter played by Gene Tierney, but the studio became fearful of a possible lawsuit by Frank's widow and/or son, so it was eliminated from the script. See more »

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Clem, aka Tom Grayson: There ain't no right for us poor people than the end of a gun.
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Features Jesse James (1939) See more »

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"Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair"
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Written by Stephen Foster
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good follow up to Jesse James
24 February 2004 | by See all my reviews

The first western directed by Fritz Lang and it wouldn't be his last. Henry Fonda returns as Frank James and so do several other cast members like John Carradine and Henry Hull. There is a new cast member played by Jackie Cooper who is playing Jesse James grown up kid. This one starts out with Frank wanting to give up bank robbing until he hears about Jesse getting killed and then going after the Ford brothers who killed him. The Ford brothers, by the way, are putting on a show about how they killed Jesse.

Frank doesn't have that much money so he decides to rob a bank and a man is killed by the posse but they think Frank did it. There's more to the plot by you can find that out for yourself. This is Gene Tierney's first film and in this movie Frank had to avenge Jesse's murder without actually killing anyone himself, do to the strictures of the censors.


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