The Ox-Bow Incident (Dual Format Edition)

One of Hollywood s most prolific directors, William A. Wellman was responsible for more than 80 features and a string of masterpieces including Wings, the first film to win the Best Picture Oscar, The Public Enemy, which made a star of James Cagney, screwball classic Nothing Sacred, the original A Star is Born and this marvellous noir-inflected Western, The Ox-Bow Incident.

Set in a small Nevada town where tensions are running high thanks to a spate of cattle rustling, things reach boiling point when cowboy Larry Kinkaid is murdered. With the sheriff out of town, the residents form a posse and head to Ox-Bow Canyon to find the three men they believe to be guilty including Dana Andrews and Anthony Quinn in early major roles and enact their own form of justice.

A favourite of both Clint Eastwood and star Henry Fonda, who serves as the film s moral centre, The Ox-Bow Incident is a tough, complex picture whose uncompromising starkness continues to astound to this day.

SPECIAL FEATURES:
– New 4K digital restoration by Twentieth Century Fox
– High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
– Uncompressed Mono 1.0 PCM Audio
– Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
– Audio commentary by American West historian Dick Etulain and William Wellman Jr
– Introduction by Peter Stanfield, author of Hollywood, Westerns and the 1930s: The Lost Trail and Horse Opera: The Strange History of the Singing Cowboy
– Scene-select commentaries by Stanfield
– Henry Fonda: Hollywood’s Quiet Hero, a 45-minute documentary on the actor from the Biography series
– Stills gallery
– Theatrical trailer
– Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Vladimir Zimakov
– Fully illustrated collector s booklet containing new writing by Nick Pinkerton