James Brothers Collection

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 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

Fritz Lang

Sam Hellman

Darryl F. Zanuck

George Barnes

Walter Thompson

Richard Day

Wiard B. Ihnen

Thomas Little

Kenneth Macgowan

David Buttolph

Louis Hippe

Ben Silvey

Hal Herman

Aaron Rosenberg

Joseph C. Behm

W.D. Flick

Roger Heman Sr.

Larry Chapman

Travis Banton

Western

The Return of Frank James

20th Century Fox

United States of America

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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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