Raetsonwe Redundant and unnecessary.

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Blake Rivera If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

jimbo-53-186511 Drifters Gil Carter (Henry Fonda) and Art Croft (Henry Morgan) arrive back in Nevada (seemingly for Carter to pick up where he left off with an old flame only to discover that she has got married and left town). Carter & Croft soon learn that a farmer has been murdered and rather than bring the perpetrators in to face justice, the townsfolk take it upon themselves to dish out their own form of justice, but it seems that they are not entirely united on this matter...The Ox-Bow Incident is good as a concept and in many ways is probably ahead of its time. Thematically, it has, at the very least, probably proven to be influential on later film such as 12 Angry Men which focused on the notion of proving guilt rather than using suppositions or assumptions in order to reach a verdict. However, Hang Em High is probably a more recent film that shares much in common with the Ox-Bow Incident.Whilst its themes and ideology are worthy in themselves I sadly didn't find this film as compelling or involving as I hoped it would be. For a start, I found the narrative a little simplistic; everyone in the town is told that the farmer has been killed and they all believe it because someone told them that it's true?? I mean yes I can possibly believe it at a stretch, but with no real evidence it just seems a but dumb. Part of the plot has Carter coming back to meet his old flame and he does indeed bump into her later in the film, but what was the actual point of this meeting and what purpose did it have in the story??? Apart from giving Fonda the opportunity to practice his steely-eyed stare and give some more tough-talk I saw no real point to any of it. It's a waste of 5-10 minutes of screen time in my opinion, but given the film's short running time this only acts as a minor flaw.Once the bloodthirsty townsfolk catch up with our perpetrators then things do improve slightly; at this point we essentially get to the heart of the film here and some moral debating begins on how they should deal with these perpetrators. Whilst this in quite interesting, there's not really much depth injected into the script and you basically find a minority of people deciding that they want the perpetrators to face justice through the legal channels and others who want the perpetrators to face justice there and then. Unfortunately, it doesn't expand upon this and there isn't much input from the objectors or the bloodthirsty mob which for me would have added some weight to the film and made it slightly more satisfying.The acting is generally OK (although no-one really stood out for me) and at a shade over 70 minutes long it wouldn't take much time out of your life to watch this film, but given its high rating on IMDB I can't help but feel a little bit disappointed with what I got served up with here.

HotToastyRag This movie isn't really remotely similar to Rashomon, but it reminded me of it because it's the type of movie that really makes you think. The Ox-Bow Incident is a classic western about a lynch mob out for revenge for the murder of a local farmer. The murder isn't shown, and the deceased is never seen onscreen, but the characters in the film feel so passionately about their fallen comrade, they immediately form a posse. A couple of men, namely Henry Fonda, Harry Morgan, and Harry Davenport, are opposed to the movement, but even though they make their case that the townspeople should wait for the deputy to return-he's out at the moment-no one listens to them. But, since Henry Fonda gets first billing, he doesn't wait around while the angry mob tracks down the killers; he and the Harrys go with them to try and talk them out of it.While he'd have to wait another ten years before winning his first Oscar, this movie marked a turning point in Anthony Quinn's career. In the early forties, he was relegated to playing "ethnic parts", but in The Ox-Bow Incident, his character is written to be intelligent and cultured-as well as ethnic. Audiences took notice of him, and in the next couple of years he started getting bigger roles. However, it's Dana Andrews who really shines. The angry mob catches three men, Tony, Dana, and Francis Ford. Dana, a family man and the main spokesman of the three, maintains his innocence and gives a performance not many men would feel comfortable giving in 1943. He weeps and begs and shows enormous vulnerability; perhaps this movie was as much his audition for The Best Years of Our Lives as it was Henry Fonda's audition for 12 Angry Men.If you like movies that make you talk about it afterwards, like Town Without Pity or The Outrage, check out The Ox-Bow Incident. It's a pretty famous classic, but it's also very heavy. You might want to put the kids to bed before you press play.Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to adult material and violence, I wouldn't let my kids watch it.

Pjtaylor-96-138044 '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

antoniocasaca123 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.