The Return of Frank James is a 1940 western film directed by Fritz Lang and starring Henry Fonda and Gene Tierney. It is a sequel to Henry King's 1939 film Jesse James.
Plot[]
When Jesse James's murderers are set free, his brother Frank (Henry Fonda) vows revenge and, accompanied by his ward, sets out to track them down. To fund his manhunt, he robs an express office and is subsequently wrongly accused of the clerk's murder, but a newspaper reporter is determined to find out the truth.
Cast[]
- Henry Fonda as Frank James
- Gene Tierney as Eleanor Stone
- Jackie Cooper as Clem
- Henry Hull as Major Rufus Cobb
- John Carradine as Bob Ford
- J. Edward Bromberg as George Runyan
- Donald Meek as McCoy
- Eddie Collins as Station Agent
- George Barbier as Judge
- Russell Hicks as Prosecutor
- Ernest Whitman as Pinky
- Charles Tannen as Charlie Ford
- Lloyd Corrigan as Randolph Stone
- Victor Kilian as Preacher
- Edward McWade as Colonel Jackson
- George Chandler as Roy
- Irving Bacon as Bystander
- Frank Shannon as Sheriff
- Barbara Pepper as Nellie Blane
- Louie Mason as Watchman
- Stymie Beard as Mose
- William Pawley and Frank Sully as Actors
- Davidson Clark as Officer
- Robert McKenzie as Old Man on Rocker (uncredited)