The Ox-Bow Incident (20th Century-Fox) is Walter Van Tilburg Clark's excellent sagebrush yarn filmed with tantalizing promise, a good deal of performance and some of lanky Henry Fonda's best acting.
This absorbing tale of a lynching opens one afternoon in the '80s, as two tired stubble-bearded cattle punchers (Henry Fonda and Henry Morgan) canter into the hushed, cruel, lonely street of a suncracked Nevada town. They enter a saloon In the whiskied twilight of the day, a native appears with news of an up-country rancher's murder. The whole ennui-soaked town comes to life with...
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