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The Ox-Bow Incident

The Ox-Bow Incident

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Summary

Western drama starring Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews. Shortly after riding into a Nevada town, two cowboys become unwilling members of a lynch mob hastily organised to track down the rustlers responsible for shooting a local rancher. But the mob's determination to exact swift and brutal revenge leads to tragedy.

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Review

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Allen Eyles

This celebrated indictment of lynching remains a brave and unorthodox piece of film-making, based on the novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark and pushed through the studio system by director William A Wellman as a personal project. It is a western only in setting (the exteriors are largely created on studio sound stages) and its grim tale lacks any heroes - Henry Fonda and Henry "Harry" Morgan are passing cattlemen who observe rather than intervene. The lynch mob mentality is tellingly explored but the letter so beautifully read out by Fonda is far too literate and philosophical to be the last testament of a humble cowboy.

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8.0/10

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Cast

rolenameGil CarterHenry FondaDonald MartinDana AndrewsRose MapenMary Beth HughesThe MexicanAnthony Quinn (1)Gerald TetleyWilliam EytheArt CroftHarry MorganMa GrierJane DarwellJudge Daniel TylerMatt BriggsArthur DaviesHarry DavenportMajor TetleyFrank ConroyFarnleyMarc Lawrence (1)DarbyVictor Kilian"Dad" HardwickFrancis Ford

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rolenameDirectorWilliam A Wellman

Details

Theatrical distributor

20th Century Fox Film Co. Ltd

Languages

English | Spanish

Guidance

violence

Available on

DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Black and white

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