The Overlooked Utter Strangeness of the 1940s

Posted on Tuesday 30 November 2004

I just got done watching The Ox-Bow Incident (yes, more dissertation viewing). Did the film really chalk lynch mentality down to repressed/latent homosexuality?

Filmically, it was mix of half 30s classicism and half falt, floodlit B&W expressionism. I’m willing to entertain counterexamples, but I felt as if I were watching the first (unbeknownst) film noir.


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