Such a frustrating disappointment

Sick Product of a Sick System

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Captivating movie !

'The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)' isn't your traditional western. Instead, it's more 'western-noir', aiming for, and often achieving, a kind of moral ambiguity seldom seen in films of any age (never-mind one from the early 1940s). It's a bleak, unflinching morality play with a large ensemble cast who all turn in excellent performances and cement the feeling that this small story was one that happened somewhere to someone some time ago. In fact, it probably happened thousands of times. This was just a film trying to stop it from happening again, in our time. It features a haunting and powerful ending that truly sticks with you long after it successfully makes its poignant point. A truly unexpected, harrowing and moving picture. 8/10

Good movie, very interesting and timeless. The movie would still be better if the characters (or some of them) were better developed. The character Rose should not exist, adds absolutely nothing to the film.

THE OX-BOW INCIDENT is the film in which violence and lynching by a mob shown in quite real terms. Compassion and mercy has no place. Each character in the crowd has their own beliefs for which he has to take a human life. In this respect man nor see nor hear the sense that in a certain form is always there. I think it is not a purely commercial act. The film is uncompromising between horror and human morality.Revenge is "unclear" motive. Each character has a specific motive to prove to themselves and others. Characterization of the characters is excellent and the film definitely in this segment is gaining traction. The film is short and the story focuses on the lynching. After all, the plot suggests. The scenario is a cold and realistic. Notwithstanding any contrary opinion, the situation of the film we can imagine in today's terms.We have not learned.Henry Fonda as Gil Carter was from the beginning moody character. Enigmatic and bitter. The reason is certainly there. The woman! A strange sense of justice and guilt. Dana Andrews as Donald Martin, one solid heartbreaking performance, consistent with the weakness and disturbing tragedy. In a letter to the essence. Frank Conroy as Major Tetley is a demagogue in his officer's uniform that is certainly not worth it. He is presented as a major figure of human evil.One very important film. I do not believe that someone would enjoy it. From this depressing and unpleasant western drama is something can be learned. Definitely.

Two drifters enter a small town, one looking for his fiancé-but the bartender tells them she has left the town to go to Frisco. Then another man arrives to report that Kinkaid, a popular local rancher had been shot in the head at his ranch. This stirs up the town to create a lynch mob, but a couple go to the local judge to have him try to defuse the situation. The sheriff unfortunately is away at Kinkaid's ranch, so the deputy is in charge. They all join the group, who go into the nearby mountains where they believe the outlaws are.En route, they find people traveling in a wagon-the woman the drifter was supposed to marry and the man she actually did marry (but nothing comes further of this plot point). The find the cattle with Kinkaid's brand-and three men camped nearby. They proclaim their innocence, but one of the campers is recognized as a wanted outlaw-and statements made by the others arouse the posse's suspicions. Will they go ahead and just lynch them?The movie has a slow beginning and an over-dramatic ending, but the middle is certainly good.