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A sombre and thought-provoking Western with a great main and support cast giving top-drawer interpretations

SPOILER AHEAD...Grim, sobering and well-acted story of vigilante justice...

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"My dear Wife, Mr. Davies will tell you what's happening here tonight. He's a good man and has done everything he can for me. I suppose there are some other good men here, too, only they don't seem to realize what they're doing. They're the ones I feel sorry for. 'Cause it'll be over for me in a little while, but they'll have to go on remembering for the rest of their lives. A man just naturally can't take the law into his own hands and hang people without hurtin' everybody in the world, 'cause then he's just not breaking one law but all laws. Law is a lot more than words you put in a book, or judges or lawyers or sheriffs you hire to carry it out. It's everything people ever have found out about justice and what's right and wrong. It's the very conscience of humanity. There can't be any such thing as civilization unless people have a conscience, because if people touch God anywhere, where is it except through their conscience? And what is anybody's conscience except a little piece of the conscience of all men that ever lived? I guess that's all I've got to say except kiss the babies for me and God bless you. Your husband, Donald."

Henry Fonda in The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

Henry Fonda and Harry Morgan in The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

Henry Fonda and Mary Beth Hughes in The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, and Harry Morgan in The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

Henry Fonda, Harry Davenport, and Harry Morgan in The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

Dana Andrews and Dick Rich in The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, and Paul E. Burns in The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

Henry Fonda and Leigh Whipper in The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

Henry Fonda

Dana Andrews

Mary Beth Hughes

Lamar Trotti

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Walter Van Tilburg Clark&apos;s novel inspires an account of a lynch mob that seeks revenge for a rancher&apos;s murder.

William A. Wellman

The Ox-Bow Incident

A Fabulous Study of Mob Mentality

Before &quot;12 Angry Men&quot; there was &quot;The Ox-Bow Incident,&quot; a bleaker and never less than fascinating exploration of the nature of mob violence. Unlike &quot;12 Angry Men,&quot; this film has no clear-cut heroes. It takes place in a more primitive, wilder time and location, and the principal question at the crux of this movie&apos;s conflict is whether or not three suspected cattle thieves should be punished without due legal process. A small group is in favor of letting the frontier town sheriff handle the situation, while a much larger group smells only blood (and in some cases are motivated by personal vengeance) and convince themselves of the suspects&apos; guilt without listening to any of the evidence. It&apos;s quite a frightening movie in its own way, and it has a stark look at odds with the average studio film being churned out at the time (1943). Henry Fonda is quite good, as usual, in the closest thing the movie has to a main character, but it seems pointless to single him out in what is obviously such an ensemble effort, and in a movie that only lasts a mere 75 minutes or so and has such a large cast, each actor manages to color his/her character with delightful details, sometimes with no more than a single line of dialogue or one reaction shot.

&quot;The Ox-Bow Incident&quot; is a fantastic film. I don&apos;t think it&apos;s well-remembered now, but I&apos;m thrilled to see it on DVD and hope that it will be rediscovered.

Grade: A

When a posse captures three men suspected of killing a local farmer, they become strongly divided over whether or not to lynch the men.

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Before "12 Angry Men" there was "The Ox-Bow Incident," a bleaker and never less than fascinating exploration of the nature of mob violence. Unlike "12 Angry Men," this film has no clear-cut heroes. It takes place in a more primitive, wilder time and location, and the principal question at the crux of this movie's conflict is whether or not three suspected cattle thieves should be punished without due legal process. A small group is in favor of letting the frontier town sheriff handle the situation, while a much larger group smells only blood (and in some cases are motivated by personal vengeance) and convince themselves of the suspects' guilt without listening to any of the evidence. It's quite a frightening movie in its own way, and it has a stark look at odds with the average studio film being churned out at the time (1943). Henry Fonda is quite good, as usual, in the closest thing the movie has to a main character, but it seems pointless to single him out in what is obviously such an ensemble effort, and in a movie that only lasts a mere 75 minutes or so and has such a large cast, each actor manages to color his/her character with delightful details, sometimes with no more than a single line of dialogue or one reaction shot.

"The Ox-Bow Incident" is a fantastic film. I don't think it's well-remembered now, but I'm thrilled to see it on DVD and hope that it will be rediscovered.

Grade: A

Walter Van Tilburg Clark's novel inspires an account of a lynch mob that seeks revenge for a rancher's murder.

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