{"id":244,"date":"2007-03-25T16:51:40","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T20:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/244"},"modified":"2010-10-24T13:42:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T17:42:34","slug":"the-return-of-frank-james-1940-fritz-lang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/244","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Frank James (1940, Fritz Lang)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not as interesting as Sam Fuller&#8217;s later <em>I Shot Jesse James<\/em>, but a lot better than I&#8217;d expected.  Maybe I can enjoy a Western more than I&#8217;d thought.  Some story differences, too&#8230; for instance, Fuller&#8217;s movie has Bob Ford re-enacting the murder as a play pretty much the same way it happened, while Lang&#8217;s has the Fords camping it up onstage and acting the heroes.  Don&#8217;t know which really happened, but each version was well-suited to its own movie.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Fonda is James, hears news of Jesse&#8217;s death and sets out with young Jackie Cooper (not Jackie Coogan) to get Bob Ford (a nervous bearded John Carradine) and brother Charlie.<\/p>\n<p>Not technically the last Fritz Lang film I have to see, but the last one available until <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1356\">Human Desire<\/a><\/em> shows up on cable again.  That&#8217;s 36 down, 1 to go!  Guess I&#8217;ve been trying to watch all of Lang&#8217;s movies since college, so seven years.  At around five per year, it didn&#8217;t go nearly as fast as my Sam Fuller quest.  Even if I didn&#8217;t pick up on the geometric patterns hidden within Lang&#8217;s mise-en-scene that auteurists wet themselves over, it was neat to see forty years of cinema from one director&#8217;s perspective.  He covered 1920 to 1960, the period I know least about, and Sam Fuller was 1950 to 1990.  And they both made so many movies&#8230; gives me a convenient handle on chronology.  Oh, 1953, that was the year <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/100\">Pickup On South Street<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/152\">The Big Heat<\/a><\/em> came out.  Anyway, on now to Bunuel, Rivette, Marker and Resnais for a western european perspective.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/returnoffrankjames1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/returnoffrankjames2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/returnoffrankjames3.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/returnoffrankjames4.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not as interesting as Sam Fuller&#8217;s later I Shot Jesse James, but a lot better than I&#8217;d expected. Maybe I can enjoy a Western more than I&#8217;d thought. Some story differences, too&#8230; for instance, Fuller&#8217;s movie has Bob Ford re-enacting the murder as a play pretty much the same way it happened, while Lang&#8217;s has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,5,340,339,105],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-fritz-lang","tag-henry-fonda","tag-jesse-james","tag-western"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5233,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/5233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}