強盗を繰り返したジェシー・ジェイムズの一生を描いた1939年の『地獄への道』の続編。ジェシーが殺された後、堅気に戻った兄フランク。だが犯人のフォード兄弟が死刑を免れて保釈されたと知り、復讐を誓う……。
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監督: Fritz Lang
脚本: Sam Hellman
音楽: David Buttolph
制作: Darryl F. Zanuck
撮影監督: George Barnes
制作会社: 20th Century Fox
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".
