Movie Cosmos - The Return of Frank James

Description:

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

Top Cast >

Henry Fonda

As Frank James

Jackie Cooper

As Clem

Gene Tierney

As Eleanor Stone

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

Louis Mason

As Watchman

Matthew Beard

As Mose

William Pawley

As Actor

Frank Sully

As Actor

Davison Clark

As Officer

Bob Battier

As Frank James in Play (uncredited)

A.S. Byron

As Train Engineer (uncredited)

Kernan Cripps

As Deputy (uncredited)

Rube Dalroy

As Juror (uncredited)

Lester Dorr

As Reporter (uncredited)

Tex Driscoll

As Play Spectator (uncredited)

Edmund Elton

As Jury Foreman (uncredited)

Budd Fine

As Deputy (uncredited)

Almeda Fowler

As Mrs. Edna Stone (uncredited)

Slim Gaut

As Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Sherry Hall

As Court Clerk (uncredited)

Shep Houghton

As Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Milton Kibbee

As Reporter (uncredited)

Kermit Maynard

As Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Eric Mayne

As Saloon Patron (uncredited)

Nelson McDowell

As Confederate Veteran Juror (uncredited)

Robert McKenzie

As Old Man on Rocker (uncredited)

Lew Meehan

As Bailiff (uncredited)

Frank Melton

As Reporter (uncredited)

Adrian Morris

As Denver Detective (uncredited)

James C. Morton

As Liberty Bartender (uncredited)

Hattie Noel

As Denver House Chambermaid (uncredited)

Lee Phelps

As Denver House Bartender (uncredited)

Tex Phelps

As Front-Row Play Spectator (uncredited)

Russ Powell

As Juror (uncredited)

Allen D. Sewall

As Old Timer (uncredited)

Cap Somers

As Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Dale Van Sickel

As Reporter (uncredited)

Lillian Yarbo

As Eleanor's Maid (uncredited)

Top Crew >

Fritz Lang

Director

Sam Hellman

Screenplay

Darryl F. Zanuck

Producer

George Barnes

Director of Photography

Walter Thompson

Editor

Richard Day

Art Direction

Wiard B. Ihnen

Art Direction

Thomas Little

Set Decoration

Kenneth Macgowan

Associate Producer

David Buttolph

Music

Louis Hippe

Makeup Artist

Ben Silvey

Production Manager

Hal Herman

Assistant Director

Aaron Rosenberg

Assistant Director

Joseph C. Behm

Props

W.D. Flick

Sound

Roger Heman Sr.

Sound

Larry Chapman

Special Effects

Travis Banton

Costume Design

Reviews:

CinemaSerf (6/10)

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".

2022-04-04