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Saturday Night Cinema: The Ox-Bow Incident (1955)
From Atlas Shrugs
Atlas has a real treat in store for you tonight. The Saturday Night Cinema film feature this evening is The Ox-Bow Incident starring Henry Fonda and the unheralded (but my personal fave) Dana Andrews. While covering the Trayvon Martin mob action I used this film as a metapor for the lynching of George Zimmerman. It is perhaps, one of my favortite films, a terrible cautionary tale that is as timely today as it was then or at any time in human history. Rule of law. “The individual [is] not left at the mercy of his neighbors or his leaders: the Constitutional system of checks and balances was scientifically devised to protect him from both. This was the great American achievement.” Ayn Rand.
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the aardvark
July 15th, 2012
Dana Andrews is one of my favorite actors. I know he was underated as an actor but he was still a very good one nevertheless. My favorite role that he played was Matt Sevetic on the old time radio program, I Was A Communist For The FBI which is played on XM radio Channel 82 quite often, though not often enough for me. And The OX-Bow Incident is probably one of the best westerns to have come out of the 50′s. The book is very good as well, I read it in college for a literary criticism course. Who says second rate B actors can’t be good at what they do, just look at what Ronald Reagan accomplished.
garren webert
July 15th, 2012
Who would use a Bow to shoot an Ox?
Bad Brad
July 15th, 2012
Great movie, Twelve Angry Men might be relevant too.
Bad Brad
July 15th, 2012
Garren, 300 grain arrow, 330 fps. Do the math, more kinetic energy than a 223.
garren webert
July 15th, 2012
Brad a .223 is a tiny little piece of lead, much like Ace Frehley is a tiny member of KISS.
Bad Brad
July 15th, 2012
LOL, back to your original question.
Twellsy
July 15th, 2012
The Best Years of Our Lives. A Dana Andrews flik that is one of the best ever. Flik that is.
AbigailAdams
July 16th, 2012
The Ox-Bow Incident is probably the greatest statement every produced about rashness and uncontainability of a mob. I saw it in 7th grade civics class. Ha! Civics! Yeah, I know, right? Anyone wants to argue about the state of today’s gov’t skool in action, please tell me what is taught in civics class these days.