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Bad Day at Black Rock: Directed by John Sturges. With Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger. 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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When John J. Macreedy steps off the train at the jerkwater town of Black Rock, he becomes the object of fear, hatred, and even a murder plot. The altruistic Macreedy came to Black Rock to hand over a posthumous military award to a local man whose son had died gallantly in the Second World War.
In the tradition of "stranger comes to town" movies, Bad Day at Black Rock is the incredibly unimaginative story of Spencer Tracy taking a train into the small town of Black Rock. No one knows why he's come, no one knows why no one's welcoming or friendly, and no one knows why there's only ten people in the entire town.
Black Day at Bad Rock: Directed by Christian I. Nyby II. With George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Melinda Culea, Dwight Schultz. Since B.A. is seriously wounded, Hannibal decides to stop in a remote town to get medical help.
Bad Day at Black Rock: Directed by Robert Singer. With Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Lauren Cohan, Jim Beaver. The Winchesters are called regarding a robbery of their father's storage unit, and track down the robbers to find the item stolen is a cursed rabbit's foot, which provides great luck until lost, and once lost the previous owner dies ...
Bad Day at Black Rock: Directed by John Sturges. With Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger. A one-armed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary.
John Sturges had scheduled an entire day for the scene in which Macreedy tries to find out from Smith what happened to the Japanese farmer. Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan were so good, however, that shooting was completed by nine in the morning.
Whether classical ("Gunfight at the O.K. Corral") or somewhat unconventional ("Bad Day at Black Rock"), Sturges could frame a mountainous expanse or stage a gunfight with the best of them. He thrived when working with big casts and specialized in discovering stirring nuances in characters that would've been walking cliches in more typical genre ...
What is the plot of Bad Day at Black Rock? A one-armed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary. What was the budget for Bad Day at Black Rock?
