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The
Ox-Bow Incident
Release date 21st May 1943
Country : USA
Running time : 75 mins
Genre : Western
Starring Henry Fonda
Screenplay based on the novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Directed by William Wellman
A 20th Century Fox Picture
A couple of drifters are passing through a Western town, news comes that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. A posse including the drifters is formed to catch the culprits. Three men are found in possession of the cattle and the townspeople want them hanged on the spot.
Possibly a bit slow to start but this develops into the most powerful condemnation of the lynch mob mentality ever put on film. Fonda gives one of his finest performances particularly when he reads a letter at the end, a profoundly moving moment in the history of American cinema.
Release date 21st May 1943
Country : USA
Running time : 75 mins
Genre : Western
Starring Henry Fonda
Screenplay based on the novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Directed by William Wellman
A 20th Century Fox Picture
A couple of drifters are passing through a Western town, news comes that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. A posse including the drifters is formed to catch the culprits. Three men are found in possession of the cattle and the townspeople want them hanged on the spot.
Possibly a bit slow to start but this develops into the most powerful condemnation of the lynch mob mentality ever put on film. Fonda gives one of his finest performances particularly when he reads a letter at the end, a profoundly moving moment in the history of American cinema.
This was Henry Fonda's last movie before he joined the Navy.
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