The Return of Frank James

Year: 1940

Runtime: 92 mins

Language: English

Director: Fritz Lang

Western

Encore triumph from 20th Century-Fox. Farmer Frank and his ward hunt brother Jesse’s killers, the back-shooting Fords.

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