The Ox-Bow incident [videorecording] / Twentieth Century Fox.
Material type:
FilmLanguage: English, Spanish Summary language: English, Spanish Original language: English Series: Studio classic ; 13Publication details: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2003.Edition: Full frame versionDescription: 1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inOther title: - Oxbow incident
- Producer/writer, Lamar Trotti ; director, William A. Wellman.
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | WESTERN Ox-Bow i | Available | 33111004282840 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Based on a novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1943.
Special features: commentary ; "Henry Fonda, Hollywood's quiet hero" as seen on A&E's Biography ; restoration comparison.
Producer/writer, Lamar Trotti ; director, William A. Wellman.
Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Henry Morgan, Anthony Quinn.
A cowboy is unable to prevent three wandering travellers from being unjustly lynched for murder.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
DVD, English stereo. or mono., Spanish mono., Region 1 encoding.
Closed-captioned.
Includes English and Spanish language soundtracks, with optional subtitles in English or Spanish.