I had trouble keeping them all straight and found myself flipping back to see who was who.įor me, the film overcomes many of the book's drawbacks. For me the biggest flaw is the great number of characters, each described vividly the first time but never again. Although I love Clark's vivid descriptions of the Nevada desert, by today's standards the plot is very slow-moving. I recently picked it up again, and still found it hard-going. When I was at high school in California, The Ox-Bow Incident was required reading. In 1942 20th Century Fox produced a film also called The Ox-Bow Incident, starring Henry Fonda, Harry Morgan, Dana Andrews and a delightfully young Anthony Quinn. The book became an immediate classic and film rights were bought within a year of its publication, then re-sold. The Ox-Bow Incident is the story of two Nevada cowboys - Gil Carter and Art Croft (the first person narrator) - who get caught up in a lynch mob and its tragic results. In 1940, a young high school English teacher named Walter Van Tilburg Clark published his first novel, one of the first anti-Westerns.
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