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The Ox-Bow Incident

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The Ox-Bow Incident	comment	A 1940 Western novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Ox-Bow Incident was adapted into a film in 1943. That film, directed by William A. Wellman and starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn, and Mary Beth Hughes, received its only Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.Bridger's Well, Nevada, 1885: A rancher named Larry Kinkaid is reported dead, murdered by cattle rustlers. Deputy Butch Mapes forms an illegal posse to bring back the suspects alive for trial. Once they catch up to them, the posse, under the influence of Major Tetley (Frank Conroy), decide to hang them on the spot. Meanwhile, drifters Art Croft (Harry Morgan) and Gil Carter (Fonda) are among the few who want to see the crooks tried fairly in court.This film is noted for its scathing indictment of vigilantism, and showcases what it means to take the law into one's own hands and ignore due process.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Deconstructed with Tetley and his son Gerald. Gerald wants his father's approval; unfortunately, the Major is a vicious Knight Templar who gets three innocent men hung. When Gerald calls him out on this, the Major shoots himself.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_18ba2fe	type	Sound-Only Death
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_18ba2fe	comment	Sound-Only Death: Major Tetley, after being chewed out by his son, walks into another room, slams the door and locks it. Cue gunshot.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_2e338ce4	type	The Cavalry Arrives Late
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_2e338ce4	comment	The Cavalry Arrives Late: The sheriff arrives barely a minute after the lynch mob has finished off the three victims.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Juan Martinez, unlike his two companions, faces death with quiet resignation and a few muttered prayers.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_3e458451	type	Water Wake-up
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_3e458451	comment	Water Wake Up: Croft does this to Carter after the Tap on the Head.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Gil and Croft vote against the hanging in the film, and Gil tries to stop it by force, while in the book they sided with the majority.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Gil Carter is a rude, unpleasant drunk who loves to start fights, but he's kind to the black farmhand Sparks and is the only person in the film who actually tries to forcibly stop the lynching.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Big time. Put simply, the posse learns that the man whose death they were trying to avenge never died in the first place, and are forced to live with the fact they murdered three men for no reason (those who don't kill themselves in shame, anyway).
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: The lynch-mob has an unpleasant bombshell waiting for them once they do the deed:
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The film begins with Carter and Croft riding into the town and ends with them leaving the same way.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_5ad80bf8	type	It's All My Fault
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_5ad80bf8	comment	It's All My Fault: Davies feels he's the one responsible for the death of Martin and his comrades for not stopping the lynching, despite doing everything he could.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_5c98d100	type	One of the Boys
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_5c98d100	comment	One of the Boys: Played for drama when Ma Grier is intent on proving herself as tough as the men, including their bloodthirstiness.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: What does it truly mean to take the law into your own hands?
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Jenny "Ma" Grier is the only female member of the posse.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_5fc9b36a	type	Vigilante Injustice
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_5fc9b36a	comment	Vigilante Injustice: In the story, a rancher is murdered and the deputy rallies a mob to solve the crime. They hang the suspects without due process and the story famously harpoons the concept of vigilante justice by revealing that the cattle rancher wasn't actually dead and they had actually hung 3 innocent men.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_67792344	type	Grievous Bottley Harm
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_67792344	comment	Grievous Bottley Harm: Carter gets a whiskey bottle over his head which knocks him unconscious.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Major Tetley. In the novel, his son Gerald too. In fact, his suicide prompts his father to do the same.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Kinkaid turns out not to be dead, meaning the vigilantes killed innocent men.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_71329e49	type	Turn in Your Badge
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_71329e49	comment	Turn in Your Badge: Deputy Mapes is stripped of his badge for his illegal posse.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_716d9138	type	Bar Brawl
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_716d9138	comment	Bar Brawl: Carter gets into one early on.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: Deputy Butch Mapes, Major Tetley, and Jeff Farnley are the three posse members pushing most aggressively for the lynching, and of the three only Farnley has a sympathetic motivation as the assumed dead man was a friend of his.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Gerald Tetley commits suicide in the novel, but not in the film.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gerald Tetley gets in a very scathing one against his father, the instigator of this whole thing, after his actions led to the deaths of three innocent men. It's so vicious that Colonel Tetley kills himself.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Of the old western vigilante mindset, as well as the idea of manliness. When Gil's ex Rose Mapen shows off her new husband Swanson, a well-to-do academic, it emasculates Gil and drives him to keep going with the posse, while Tetley is obsessed with making his "weakling" son a man by any means necessary, even if it's by killing.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_8f4d6761	type	Epilogue Letter
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_8f4d6761	comment	Epilogue Letter: The letter written by Donald Martin, one of the lynched men, read by the protagonist, which does a nice job at bringing home the Central Theme of this movie:
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_9e9203e1	type	Dramatically Missing the Point
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_9e9203e1	comment	Dramatically Missing the Point: What does Smith learn from lynching three innocent men? That they should have lynched Tetley instead.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_a0797fb3	type	Stunned Silence
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_a0797fb3	comment	Stunned Silence: The shot near the end where the camera tracks along the bar, showing every member of the posse drinking in a very subdued silence.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: What the mob surely felt after hearing they hanged the wrong men.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The mob gets this when they realize Larry Kinkaid's still alive.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_aef5c283	type	Off-into-the-Distance Ending
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_aef5c283	comment	Off-into-the-Distance Ending: Ends with Croft and Carter riding out of town, bound to deliver the sad news to Martin's wife.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_b1a7cd14	type	Tap on the Head
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_b1a7cd14	comment	Tap on the Head: Carter picks a fight and gets a whiskey bottle over his head which knocks him unconscious.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_c39710e1	type	Posse
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_c39710e1	comment	Posse: The mob is an illegal posse. In the novel, the Sheriff forms a legal one to go after the real crooks.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_cb9aeb6a	type	Vigilante Man
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_cb9aeb6a	comment	Vigilante Man: The illegal posse act as a group of these. And it costs them dearly.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Martin, one of the men that get executed, becomes angry with Davies for trying to share the farewell letter intended for just his wife with the mob, as it broke his privacy.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Due to the Hays Code it could only be implied, but Gerald is often mocked by his father for being weak and feminine, he gets several lingering shots of looking at Juan Martinez, and his actor, William Eythe, was gay.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: In the film, Sparks is a composite of himself from the book and Osgood the preacher.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Gerald Tetley calls his father out on his sadistic attitude towards the hangings.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_e602b55b	type	Shadow Discretion Shot
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_e602b55b	comment	Shadow Discretion Shot: After Martin and his comrades are killed, the only thing we see are shadows of their hanging corpses.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_ead0869d	type	Acquitted Too Late
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_ead0869d	comment	Acquitted Too Late: The three men they find turn out to be innocent.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_ec212e4d	comment	Ensemble Cast: There are about 28 people in the posse, 3 men they confront, and other characters as well.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_edaedf90	type	Vomit Discretion Shot
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: After Carter comes to after he was knocked out, it's obvious that he's about to throw up and so he staggers conveniently out of sight to do so.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_f5e59782	comment	A Real Man Is a Killer: Deconstructed with Major Tetley and his son, as the Major's belief in this leads to the deaths of three innocent men.
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The Ox-Bow Incident / int_f6698528	type	Vigilante Execution
The Ox-Bow Incident / int_f6698528	comment	Vigilante Execution: This ultimately happens to the three men found by the posse. And it is a very bad thing.
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