20th Century Fox
James Brothers Collection
The Return of Frank James
Encore triumph from 20th Century-Fox.
Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse's killers, the back-shooting Fords.
- Original title
- The Return of Frank James
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
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Apr 4, 2022 · via TMDB
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 "Cobb" as his lawyer and turns himself in. The twenty minutes or so in the courtroom are a bit of an amusing tour-de-force for the old newspaper man; he plays the jury like a fiddle and the judge (George Barbier) seems pretty complicit as railroad man "McCoy" (Donald Meek) finds he has few friends in them thar parts. The ending is a bit weak, indeed the whole thing is rather an unnecessary sequel, but it's still worth it for the entertaining antics of "Maj. Cobb".
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Henry Fonda
Frank James
Jackie Cooper
Clem
Gene Tierney
Eleanor Stone
Henry Hull
Major Rufus Cobb
John Carradine
Bob Ford
J. Edward Bromberg
George Runyan
Donald Meek
McCoy
Eddie Collins
Station Agent
George Barbier
Judge
Russell Hicks
Prosecutor
Ernest Whitman
Pinky
Charles Tannen
Charlie Ford
Lloyd Corrigan
Randolph Stone
Victor Kilian
Preacher
Edward McWade
Colonel Jackson
George Chandler
Roy
Irving Bacon
Bystander
Frank Shannon
Sheriff
Barbara Pepper
Nellie Blane
Louis Mason
Watchman
Matthew Beard
Mose
William Pawley
Actor
Frank Sully
Actor
Davison Clark
Officer
Kernan Cripps
Deputy (uncredited)
Lester Dorr
Reporter (uncredited)
Tex Driscoll
Play Spectator (uncredited)
Budd Fine
Deputy (uncredited)
Almeda Fowler
Mrs. Edna Stone (uncredited)
Shep Houghton
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Milton Kibbee
Reporter (uncredited)
Kermit Maynard
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
Saloon Patron (uncredited)
Nelson McDowell
Confederate Veteran Juror (uncredited)
Robert McKenzie
Old Man on Rocker (uncredited)
Lew Meehan
Bailiff (uncredited)
Frank Melton
Reporter (uncredited)
Adrian Morris
Denver Detective (uncredited)
James C. Morton
Liberty Bartender (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Denver House Bartender (uncredited)
Tex Phelps
Front-Row Play Spectator (uncredited)
Russ Powell
Juror (uncredited)
Cap Somers
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Dale Van Sickel
Reporter (uncredited)
Lillian Yarbo
Eleanor's Maid (uncredited)
Travis Banton
Costume Design
Louis Hippe
Makeup Artist
Fritz Lang
Director
Darryl F. Zanuck
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