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The Ox-Bow Incident

by Walter Van Tilburg Clarkliterary work· published 1940

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The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1940 western novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark in which two local cattlemen are drawn into a lynch mob to find and hang three men presumed to be rustlers and the killers of a local man. It was Clark's first published novel. In 1943, the novel was adapted into an Academy Award–nominated movie of the same name, directed by William A. Wellman and starring Henry Fonda and Harry Morgan.

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The Ox-Bow Incident was adapted into a 1943 film.

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    The Ox-Bow Incident
    1943 · film · 75 min · dir. William A. Wellman · IMDb ↗
    IMDb8.090%

    A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

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