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The Return of Frank James (1940)
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Writer:
Sam Hellman (original screenplay)
Release Date:
16 August 1940 (USA)
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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
Plot Keywords:
Frank James
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Farm
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Reporter
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Charlie Ford
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Revenge
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good follow up to Jesse James
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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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Runtime:
92 min
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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.
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Frank James:
Are you coming out or am I coming in?
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Follows Jesse James (1939)
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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.