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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Western /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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William A. Wellman
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Actors:
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William Eythe,
Frank Conroy,
Mary Beth Hughes,
Matt Briggs,
Henry Fonda,
Dana Andrews,
Anthony Quinn,
Harry Morgan,
Jane Darwell,
Harry Davenport
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Duration:
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75 min.
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Rating:
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(8.2/10)58
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Plot Summary:
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Two drifters are passing through a Western hamlet, when despatch comes in that a specific agronomist has been murdered and his bullocks stolen. The townspeople, joined by the drifters, put up a posse to catch the perpetrators. They lay one's hands on three men in possession of the cattle, and are firm to see neutrality done on the spot.
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The Ox-Bow Incident
Fonda is the good cowboy who sets forbidden to prove the innocence of three drifters accused by an angry body of the slaying of a agriculturist. Anticipating Fonda's job in Twelve Livid Men, this is a powerful and ultimately depressing theatricalism where the discrepancy between advantage and bad is all too explicit to the audience. While its liberal attitude came as a stagger of fresh air when The Ox-Bow To-do was released, nowadays its theme is a little overfamiliar, and the film over lacks the scheme and inventiveness of Lumet's masterpiece Twelve Irritated Men. Pacific, in this methodology Fonda is always quality watching.
The Ox-Bow Incident
A sombre, measure simplistically liberal Western from a blockbuster next to Walter Van Tilburg Clark in which three drifters...
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