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Title Screen : Movie Title/Year and Scene Descriptions: Screenshots: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) In John Sturges' suspenseful, powerful, 50's, Western-like drama and modern-day film-noirish mystery-thriller, a masterpiece about racial prejudice (and a harsh comment upon Hollywood's blacklist and the McCarthy years) - it was set in an isolated, southwestern desert town in 1945; scriptwriter ...
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Crafted with the care and precision of a stage production and written with the psychological depth of a classic novel, Bad Day at Black Rock is an unusual, uncategorizable film noir that quietly enters and stays in the viewer’s mind just the way so many forgotten American men languished in the postwar desert. By Michael Bayer.
Feb 1, 2017 · Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) Commentator: John Sturges (director) 1. The original opening showed the various locals in Black Rock sitting around and doing nothing, unaware that the train will be ...
From the time John J. Macreedy steps off the train in Black Rock, he feels a chill from the local residents. The town is only a speck on the map and few if any strangers ever come to the place. Macreedy himself is tight-lipped about the purpose of his trip.
From the time John J. Macreedy steps off the train in Black Rock, he feels a chill from the local residents. The town is only a speck on the map and few if any strangers ever come to the place. Macreedy himself is tight-lipped about the purpose of his trip.
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 ...
