Oh, didn't realize The Ox-Bow Incident was nominated.
I loved the first twenty minutes of The Ox-Bow Incident because it did a good job building up the basics of the characters who had the biggest say in the film, but the basics ended up driving the chariots and everything the development could have been seemed betrayed for a tense mock trial. The movie did an excellent job delivering the message, and I'll never forget that. But I wanted to see where several potential subplots went with only one of them having an impact after the whole situation and its surprise ending seemed resolved. It might as well have been an episode of Rawhide. Don't get me wrong, Rawhide is a great show and this barely managed to be a great movie because the mock trial was well written.
I loved the first twenty minutes of The Ox-Bow Incident because it did a good job building up the basics of the characters who had the biggest say in the film, but the basics ended up driving the chariots and everything the development could have been seemed betrayed for a tense mock trial. The movie did an excellent job delivering the message, and I'll never forget that. But I wanted to see where several potential subplots went with only one of them having an impact after the whole situation and its surprise ending seemed resolved. It might as well have been an episode of Rawhide. Don't get me wrong, Rawhide is a great show and this barely managed to be a great movie because the mock trial was well written.