Film · 20th Century · 1943
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The Ox-Bow Incident
64Watch it awake.
They hang the wrong three men, and almost nobody will refuse the town's rush.
The review
Almost nobody joins the refusal. That is the story, more than the star. A posse in Nevada hangs three men for rustling and murder. They were not the men. Henry Fonda will not sign, and he cannot stop it. A letter arrives after. I am not describing the hanging. A teen can watch it. A younger child should not.
The rush is the town. One conscience is not a rescue, and the film does not fake one. It was not a hit. I understood that while it was on, and I was glad the order stayed ugly so we could not feel clever on the ride home. The crowd preferred the hurry to the wait.
Journal
Keep The Ox-Bow Incident in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 64. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
High Noon
74 instead of 64
High Noon is still a western film, and it scores 74 instead of 64. What you gain is stewardship: It hands on a picture of staying in office.
The eight
- 3Industry
Rustling is the charge, not a job anyone is shown doing.
- 4Household
A letter arrives after, for people who can no longer answer.
- 8Piety
Fonda will not sign, and that still cannot stop the posse.
- 8Courage
He refuses the posse and cannot stop what they mean to do.
- 9Republic
The posse owes three men the law, and the rush replaces it.
- 7Temperance
The hurry to punish is the hunger, and the film sends the bill.
- 9Truth
They were not the men, and the letter gets there only after.
- 3Stewardship
The town keeps three wrong deaths and a letter that came late.
Where to watch
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