The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
Country: US
Technical: bw 75m
Director: William Wellman
Cast: Henry Fonda, Henry Morgan, Jane Darwell, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn
Synopsis:
Outside a frontier community where a violent crime has been perpetrated three strangers are rounded up by a posse, which determines to hang them on the spot.
Review:
A great Western, using its 'true incident' to frame a moral conflict between civilised and brutish forces outside the rule of law. All the archetypal characters are represented here, and played by first-class, finely cast actors; starting and ending with the same shot, and strictly observing the classical unities, the film has, like High Noon, been demoted from generic status by some critics (viz. 'How can you have a Western confined to one set and in which the landscape plays no part?')
Country: US
Technical: bw 75m
Director: William Wellman
Cast: Henry Fonda, Henry Morgan, Jane Darwell, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn
Synopsis:
Outside a frontier community where a violent crime has been perpetrated three strangers are rounded up by a posse, which determines to hang them on the spot.
Review:
A great Western, using its 'true incident' to frame a moral conflict between civilised and brutish forces outside the rule of law. All the archetypal characters are represented here, and played by first-class, finely cast actors; starting and ending with the same shot, and strictly observing the classical unities, the film has, like High Noon, been demoted from generic status by some critics (viz. 'How can you have a Western confined to one set and in which the landscape plays no part?')
Country: US
Technical: bw 75m
Director: William Wellman
Cast: Henry Fonda, Henry Morgan, Jane Darwell, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn
Synopsis:
Outside a frontier community where a violent crime has been perpetrated three strangers are rounded up by a posse, which determines to hang them on the spot.
Review:
A great Western, using its 'true incident' to frame a moral conflict between civilised and brutish forces outside the rule of law. All the archetypal characters are represented here, and played by first-class, finely cast actors; starting and ending with the same shot, and strictly observing the classical unities, the film has, like High Noon, been demoted from generic status by some critics (viz. 'How can you have a Western confined to one set and in which the landscape plays no part?')