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.

The Ox-Bow Incident will be released on UK duyal format (Blu-ray & DVD) on 4th July 2016 by Arrow Films as part of the Arrow Academy label at the RRP of £19.99.

Special Edition contents:

• 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