The Ox-Bow Incident
Starring: Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn
Director: William A. Wellman, James Tinling
Writer: Lamar Trotti
Producer: Lamar Trotti
The Ox-Bow Incident is a 1943 American Western film directed by William A. Wellman, starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews and Mary Beth Hughes, with Anthony Quinn, William Eythe, Harry Morgan and Jane Darwell. Two cowboys arrive in a Western town, when news arrives that a local rancher has been murdered and his cattle stolen.
Trivia
- Selected for the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
- Won the National Board of Review Award for Best Film.
- Also nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture.
- Based on The Ox-Bow Incident (1940 novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark).
- Director William A. Wellman loved the novel and wanted to adapt it into a film and then interested Darryl F. Zanuck in producing it.
- Zanuck agreed in producing the story, on the condition that Wellman would also direct two other films for the studio, Thunder Birds (1942) and Buffalo Bill (1944).
- In the book, young Gerald commits suicide by hanging himself in the barn.
Filming Locations
- Lone Pine
- Iverson Ranch
- Filming was done from late June to early August 1942, mostly in studio back-lots and sound stages; a limited amount of location shooting was done at a ranch in Chatsworth and in Lone Pine, both in California.
Previous Showings
2 Runs • 1 Festival
865 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (July 8, 1943)
Original Run: July 8, 1943 (Thursday - Saturday)
All runs on record (2):
- July 8, 1943 (Thursday - Saturday)Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews
- October 16 - 17, 2025 · 865 ticketsClassic Westernsw/ My Darling Clementine