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Ox-Bow Incident

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Released: 2003-11-04

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Ox-Bow Incident DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Cap Anderson, Hank Bell, Tex Driscoll, Victor Kilian, Tom London, Frank McGrath, Willard Robertson, Clint Sharp, Ben Watson, Ed Richard, George Plues, Forrest Dillon, Larry Dods, Don House, Walter Robbins, Henry Morgan, Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Mary Beth Hughes, Anthony Quinn, Jane Darwell, Harry Davenport, William Eythe, Matt Briggs, Frank Conroy, Marc Lawrence, Paul Hurst, Chris-Pin Martin, Frank Orth, Ted North, George Meeker, Almira Sessions, Margaret Hamilton, Dick Rich, Francis Ford, Stanley Andrews, William Benedict, Rondo Hatton, Paul E. Burns, Leigh Whipper, George Chandler, George Lloyd

Director(s): William Wellman

Features:
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Commentary by Dick Eulain (Western Scholar) and William Wellman Jr.
"Henry Fonda: Hollywoods Quiet Hero" as seen on Biography on the A&E network
Still gallery
Restoration comparison

Ox-Bow Incident DVD Details

Video:
Pre-1954 Standard
Audio:
PCM stereo
PCM mono
Language:
English
Spanish
Subtitles:
English, Spanish

Running Time: 75
Genre: Movie Westerns
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 024543061069
Product Code: FOX2006106DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1943
Studio: 20th Century Fox

Ox-Bow Incident DVD Summary This now-classic indictment of mob rule was a pet project of both star Henry Fonda and director William Wellman, both of whom agreed to work on lesser 20th Century-Fox projects in exchange for this film.

After a hard winter on the range, cowboys Gil Carter (Fonda) and Art Croft (Harry Morgan) ride into a fleabitten small town for a drink.

Within minutes, they get mixed up in a barroom brawl, which earns them the animosity of the locals.

By and by, word reaches town that a local rancher has been killed by rustlers.

With the sheriff out of town, a lynch mob is formed under the leadership of Major Tetley (Frank Conroy), a former Confederate officer who hopes to recapture past glories.

Worried that they'll be strung up, Carter and Croft reluctantly join the mob and head out of town.

In the dark of night, the group comes across three sleeping transients: a farmer named Martin (Dana Andrews), a Mexican (Anthony Quinn), and a senile old man (Francis Ford).

The fact that Martin carries no bill of sale written by the so-called murder victim is evidence enough for Tetley to demand that the three men be hanged on the spot.

Carter knows that this is a gross miscarriage of justice, but he's helpless to intervene.

Resolving himself to his fate, Martin gives Carter a letter to deliver to his wife.

The three unfortunates die at the end of the rope, and the mob rides off, only to discover that there never was a murder of any kind.

Based on a novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Ox-Bow Incident is not so much a western as a gothic melodrama, with deep, looming shadows and atmospheric underlighting worthy of The Cabinet of Dr.

Caligari.

Though the film lost a fortune at the box office (a fact that Fox head Darryl F.

Zanuck never tired of pointing out to Fonda and Wellman), it gains in stature with each passing year.