27 October 2009

The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

It took me 45 minutes to realize that I had already seen this movie about 10 years ago. I guess that's kind of indicative of the quality of the movie -- it's pretty dull. Think of this movie as Western-style 12 Angry Men: 3 dudes are accused of murder, and Peter Fonda defends their innocence, as the rest of the gang is pretty gung-ho about hanging them. I will say that the film's climax [whether these guys will live or die] is pretty emotional.

Oh yeah, and Anthony Quinn plays an ambiguously ethnic brown person in this.

2/5 pizzas

3 comments:

  1. what? harsh. 3 out of 5, come on - it was good.

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  2. boring with a kind of exciting last scene.

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  3. Someone get Henry Fonda on the Supreme Court!

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