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Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 American film noir neo-Western film directed by John Sturges with screenplay by Millard Kaufman. It stars Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan with support from Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin.
Bad Day at Black Rock: Directed by John Sturges. With Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger. A one-armed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary.
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) was one of the earliest Hollywood motion pictures to feature Asian martial arts. The movie had three Oscar winners at the time ( Dean Jagger with one, Spencer Tracy...
Bad Day at Black Rock, American mystery film, released in 1955, that fused elements of the western with those of film noir. It was based on Howard Breslin’s short story “Bad Time at Honda” (1947).
Searching for a man named Komoko, Macreedy is met with disdain by virtually every local, including the resident thug, Hector David (Lee Marvin), and the imposing Reno Smith (Robert Ryan). As...
Synopsis. One hot summer day in 1945, when the Streamliner train stops at the remote desert town of Black Rock, Arizona, for the first time in four years, the townspeople greet the visiting stranger, a one-armed man named John J. Macreedy, with suspicion and hostility.
“I think of Bad Day at Black Rock as a Western as well, a modern-era Western, as it takes place in the months just after the end of WWII. Whenever Bad Day at Black Rock came up, Sturges said, ‘It doesn’t get any better than that. The screenplay came to me and we didn’t have to change anything.
