Grapes Of Wrath/My Darling Clementine/Ox-Bow Incident DVD

Includes the following films:
My Darling Clementine:
Masterfully directed by the renowned John Ford (How Green Was My Valley, The Grapes of Wrath), My Darling Clementine is considered one of the finest Westerns ever made. Henry Fonda is Wyatt Earp, a dusty but dignified and literate cattleman and ex-marshal who takes the job of Tombstone's marshal after his youngest brother is murdered and their cattle herd stolen outside of town. Disgusted with the town's violent and anarchic nature, Earp takes the job both to bring his brother's killer to justice and to rid Tombstone - which boasts the biggest graveyard west of the Rockies - of its barbaric, outlaw elements.

The Grapes Of Wrath:
Director John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath is more than an account of the Joad family, a depression-era family of dispossessed farmers who migrate from the Oklahoma dustbowl of the 1930s to the supposedly greener pastures of California. The film is the story of the journey of sharecropper's son Tom Joad (Henry Fonda), a bar room brawler who is converted into a union organiser. The Grapes of Wrath won Oscars for Best Director and Best Actress (Jane Darwell as Ma Joad) and was nominated for five others, including Best Actor (Henry Fonda) and Best Picture (it lost to Alfred Hitchcock's noir mystery Rebecca). More recently, the American Film Institute named it one of the top ten movies of all time.

The Ox-Bow Incident
Henry Fonda and director William Wellman took on various commercial projects at Twentieth Century Fox in exchange for a deal that let them make this classic film. At a time when most Hollywood movies were patriotic victory dances whose sole goals were either fluff entertainment or patriotic morale boosters, The Ox-Bow Incident stood out as a complex exploration of human morality and an indictment of American values. Though the film did poorly at the box office when it opened, it has since become recognised as among the greatest releases of its day.

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