Western Cinema
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) Directed by William Wellman
After a long, dusty cattle drive, two trail-weary cowboys, Henry Fonda and Harry Morgan, stop in the town of Bridger Wells, Nevada, tie up their horses and head to Darby’s Saloon. They get word that three suspicious outsiders have been accused of cattle rustling and a lynch mob is on the move. Since they are outsiders themselves, what should they do? The studio shelved this movie for two years because it qualified as neither wartime propaganda nor escapist entertainment.