A one-armed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary.
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Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 American thriller film in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope, directed by John Sturges and starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan that combines elements of the western genre with that of film noir. The supporting cast includes Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Lee Marvin, and Ernest Borgnine.
The film tells the story of a mysterious stranger who arrives at a tiny isolated town in a desert of the southwest United States in search of a man. The film was adapted by Don McGuire and Millard Kaufman from the short story "Bad Time at Honda" by Howard Breslin. The original story had appeared in The American Magazine in January 1947, with full-color illustrations by Robert Fawcett.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Day_at_Black_Rock
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I just watched this for the first time a few months ago after seeing it on the 1001 Movies to See Before You Die list. I have been singing its praises to everybody! Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine are perfect in trying to agitate a calm Spenser Tracy. I do weekly movie night at my house and I think I might show this soon. Thanks for writing about this here.
It's a chilling film for sure, yet so very very deeply warm and human but with no cheap pathos nor any sentimentality whatsoever. "Raw" is a good way of describing it, no lose ends, no extra parts - just human. You can feel that Spencer Tracy really poured his soul into the role... the ending doesn't fail to give me a shiver every time I watch it. And the theme is... strikingly fresh for our times (or any times...) So glad new people are still discovering it!
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