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Rating: 6 stars

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The Return of Frank James (1940)

Directed by Fritz Lang

Crime | Western | Drama

Overview

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

Rated NR | Length 92 minutes

Actors

Henry Fonda | Jackie Cooper | Gene Tierney | Henry Hull | John Carradine | J. Edward Bromberg | Donald Meek | Eddie Collins | George Barbier | Russell Hicks | Ernest Whitman | Charles Tannen | Lloyd Corrigan | Victor Kilian | Edward McWade | George Chandler | Irving Bacon | Frank Shannon | Barbara Pepper | Louis Mason | Matthew 'Stymie' Beard | William Pawley | Frank Sully | Davison Clark | Bob Battier | A.S. Byron | Kernan Cripps | Rube Dalroy | Lester Dorr | Tex Driscoll | Edmund Elton | Budd Fine | Almeda Fowler | Slim Gaut | Sherry Hall | Shep Houghton | Milton Kibbee | Kermit Maynard | Eric Mayne | Nelson McDowell | Robert McKenzie | Lew Meehan | Frank Melton | Adrian Morris | James C. Morton | Hattie Noel | Lee Phelps | Tex Phelps | Russ Powell | Allen D. Sewall | Cap Somers | Dale van Sickel | Lillian Yarbo

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

A competent, although almost entirely fictional, account of Frank James starting with the death of his brother Jesse, directed by Fritz Lang. Not Lang’s best film by any means, but a decent enough watch mostly due to Henry Fonda as Frank.

There’s an amazing chase scene on horseback through the Rockies that’s pretty cool right up until the horses are intentionally tripped and likely injured to get the falls. Ugh. I really have a difficult time with the animal cruelty in old westerns.

I swear there’s a Carradine in every goddamn movie about the James brothers. John Carradine plays Robert Ford in this one and plays a priest in THE TRUE STORY OF JESSE JAMES. And of course all the Carradine brothers are in THE LONG RIDERS.

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