The Return of Frank James
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Actor: Gene Tierney, Henry Fonda, Henry Hull, Jackie Cooper, John CarradineBrand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Return of Frank James
Movie Review: This is a fun film
Summary: 5 Stars
This 1940 color movie has the impediments of its age: the portrayal of blacks, called "darkies" in the film, as foolish uneducated boobs and women as beautiful, emotional, home accessories that have difficulty reasoning and should not be taken out for public display. Yet despite these age-old faults, the flick is interesting and at times downright humorous.
Jesse James is assassinated by the Ford brothers and his brother Frank, who had been hiding as a rancher, helped by a black who can't get it straight that he has to stop calling him Mr. Frank, and a boy who finds that he has his first hair of a beard, is determined to get revenge. Jesse and Frank James, as appropriate for folk heroes, are portrayed as essentially good people; they never killed anyone; they only robbed people. Frank James is a man who is very concerned about other people. Once, in a rush, he asks a man standing by a wagon how much the wagon and its horses cost. The man says he thinks $500 or $600. Honest Frank gives him $600 and two horses. As he drives away, he shouts back, is there anything wrong with the wagon. He probably did not hear the reply, nothing that I know of, but it isn't my wagon. Frank's only fault seems to be that he chews tobacco and spit it out on occasions.
Frank turns himself in to the sheriff to save a "darkie" and is tried for killing a man during a robbery, an act we know, of course, that he could not have committed.
Summary of The Return of Frank James
RETURN OF FRANK JAMES - DVD MovieHenry King's 1939 Jesse James sidestepped history to embrace folklore's version of the outlaw as a populist hero. This sequel is pure dime-novel fiction, with Jesse's brother (Henry Fonda) getting even, albeit reluctantly, with Bob Ford (John Carradine), "the dirty little coward" who back-shot his leader to win amnesty. The revenge theme would seem tailor-made for 20th Century?Fox's newly signed directorial talent, Fritz Lang, to whip up a fine Teutonic frenzy. However, the maestro of Die Nibelungen treated the material straight, like the good, impersonal Hollywood craftsman he was eager to be taken for, at that point in his career. Besides, Lang loved the West and Western lore, and was happy working in the Western genre. (Check out his next Fox assignment, Western Union, for a richer confirmation of this.) The Technicolor is vivid, nowhere more so than in the red lips of Gene Tierney in her screen debut. --Richard T. Jameson
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