Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
Just the way it happened!
CrimeDramaMysteryThrillerWestern
Director: John Sturges · Writers: Millard Kaufman, Howard Breslin
One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.
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Director
John Sturges
Cast
Spencer Tracy
John J. Macreedy 
Robert Ryan
Reno Smith 
Walter Brennan
Doc T.R. Velie Jr. 
Lee Marvin
Hector David 
Dean Jagger
Tim Horn 
Anne Francis
Liz Wirth 
John Ericson
Pete Wirth 
Ernest Borgnine
Coley Trimble 
Russell Collins
Mr. Hastings 
Walter Sande
Sam 
Billy Dix
Cafe Lounger (uncredited)
K.L. Smith
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Hateful subject given a master class telling. Produced by Dore Schary out of MGM, Bad Day at Black Rock is directed by John Sturges and stars Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin. It's adapted by Don McGuire and Millard Kaufman from the story "Bad Day at Hondo" written by Howard Breslin. It's shot on location in CinemaScope and Eastman Color at Lone Pine, Death Valley & Alabama Hills in California, with William C. Mellor on photography and André Previn scoring the music. A classy production that combines elements of Westerns and film noir, Bad Day at Black Rock deals with racism and all the hate and bully tactics that come with such a vile subject. It tells the story of a mysterious one armed stranger, John J. Macreedy (Tracy), who arrives at a tiny isolated town in a desert of the Southwest United Stat…
