The Return of Frank James (1940) Reviews & Ratings

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The Return of Frank James reviews

The Return of Frank James holds a 6.4/10 average from 146 TMDB ratings.

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" (Jacki…
— CinemaSerf (6/10)

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

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