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Bad Day at Black Rock is a sharply, simplistically written story of a stranger who arrives at a desolate little American town in the middle of a desert, only to find nothing but general suspicion and hostility towards him. Sturges’ film is minimalist, showcasing beautiful Panavision photography, featuring splendid acting from some of ...
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Synopsis. The time is 1945, just after the end of World War II. The great railroad train Streamliner stops at the town of Black Rock Arizona. The train discharges a single passenger with only one arm named John J. Macreedy.The conductor comments that this is the first time in four years that the train has stopped there.
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Academy Award winner Spencer Tracy stars as John Macreedy, a World WarII veteran trying to find the father of the man who saved his life in this classic, tau...
Feb 9, 2017 · Folks in Black Rock have their own way of welcoming mysterious, one-armed stranger John J. Macreedy. He’s welcome to leave. Or they’ll make sure he leaves in...
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Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) is a color film noir classic with a neo-Western setting, offering a thrilling paranoiac small-town murder story in which Spencer Tracy roughs up against some brilliantly played rough and tough local talent in a desert town. Directed by John Sturges and starring Lee Marvin and Ernest ...
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK begins as one-armed John MacReedy (Spencer Tracy) gets off a train in a tiny, dusty little Western town rarely visited by strangers. At the local hotel, MacReedy asks about a local farmer named Komoko and the manager res to give him a room. When MacReedy takes a key anyway, bully Hector (Lee Marvin) insists that it is his ...
