The Ox-Bow Incident

The Ox-Bow Incident

Lynch law rules the mob!

194376 min7.7 / 10

A stark moral indictment of mob justice and the fragility of law, built on the tension between civilization and barbarism in the Old West.

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

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