"THE OX-BOW INCIDENT"
Sir,-I should like to support J.C.R.’s tribute to The Ox-Bow Incident, although I don’t support his criticism of The Grapes of Wrath. The Ox-Bow Incident was shown in Christchurch on a double-feature programme with a "Bumstead" film. It ran a very short season. If one managed to sit through the Bumstead "tripe," The Ox-Bow Incident was a refreshing endorsement of men’s power to think and feel and say something, even in Hollywood. It is presumed that the Hays Office departed from their usual negative policy to approve this film because it might DO GOOD. It certainly does good, I think, but not because it has the usual cheap "good-men-win-bad-men-lose" touch, but because it deals with a problem that is always with us, the problem of preserving our sanity and sense of justice, however deeply our feelings may be moved or our anger aroused. It is a pointer as to how films could make a contribution (although like all contributions, it might require a little unselfishness) to rehabilitation and sense in a devalued, bewildered and angry war and post-war world, When I saw the film, it received the rare tribute of spontaneous applause during its screening, a tribute that few films, however strong their box-office value. are awarded.
M.
F.
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 256, 19 May 1944, Page 5
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213"THE OX-BOW INCIDENT" New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 256, 19 May 1944, Page 5
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