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Overview

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Director:
Writer:
Sam Hellman (original screenplay)
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Release Date:
16 August 1940 (USA) more
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Plot:
Frank James continues to avoid arrest in order to take revenge on the Ford brothers for their murder of his brother Jesse. full summary | full synopsis
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good follow up to Jesse James more (19 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Henry Fonda ... Frank James (aka Ben Woodson)

Gene Tierney ... Eleanor Stone
Jackie Cooper ... Clem (aka Tom Grayson)
Henry Hull ... Major Rufus Cobb
John Carradine ... Bob Ford
J. Edward Bromberg ... George Runyan
Donald Meek ... McCoy
Eddie Collins ... Station Agent (at Eldora)
George Barbier ... Judge
Russell Hicks ... Prosecutor
Ernest Whitman ... Pinky
Charles Tannen ... Charlie Ford
Lloyd Corrigan ... Randolph Stone
Victor Kilian ... Preacher
Edward McWade ... Colonel Jackson
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Additional Details

Runtime:
92 min
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Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Certification:
UK:A (original rating) (passed with cuts) | UK:U (tv rating) | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:U (video rating) (cut) | USA:Approved (PCA #6330)
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Film debut of Gene Tierney. more
Quotes:
Frank James: Are you coming out or am I coming in? more
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Follows Jesse James (1939) more

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10 out of 13 people found the following comment useful.
good follow up to Jesse James, 24 February 2004
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Author: kyle_furr

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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