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Apr 30, 2024 · MGM. Runtime. 81 minutes. Budget. $1.3 million. IMDB. Bad Day at Black Rock. Critically acclaimed 1955 movie starring Spencer Tracy whose plot is built around the murder of the Issei father of a Nisei war hero in a forlorn desert town and its subsequent cover up. Though it was one of the first movies to note the discrimination Japanese ...
Jun 20, 2014 · B ased on Howard Breslin’s Bad Day at Hondo, the 1955 film Bad Day at Black Rock is often wedged into the Western genre. Honda was undoubtedly changed to Bad Rock as a result of the contemporary John Wayne film “Hondo,” released two years prior in 1953. Though truth be told the similarities are rather few.
Mar 23, 2022 · Bad Day at Black Rock, which is a highly acclaimed 1955 American thriller and neo-Western film with short but striking touches of railroading [Southern Pacific provided the EMD F7 diesel-electric locomotive and passenger cars in Coast Daylight livery], directed by the talented and versatile American film director John Sturges.
Spencer Tracy is John J. MacReedy, a one-armed stranger who comes to the tiny town of Black Rock one hot summer day in 1945, the first time the train has stopped there in years. He looks for both a hotel room and a local Japanese farmer named Komoko, but his inquiries are greeted at first with open hostility, then with blunt threats and ...
May 10, 2005 · "Bad Day at Black Rock" is an interesting movie. It's short -- only 81 minutes, I think. It was shot in CinemaScope. It's part modern-day western with a film noir feel to it. The cast is remarkable. Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin as the thugs. Robert Ryan as the bad guy. Dean Jagger and Walter Brennan are two accomplished supporting actors.
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. Hastings, the telegraph agent, learns that Macreedy wants to visit nearby Adobe Flat ...
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 ...
