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    Bad Day at Black Rock

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    Poster of the movie Bad Day at Black Rock
    1955     Western    
    USA
    1h 21min

    John J. MacReedy (Spencer Tracy) is 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 harassment, and finally with escalating violence. MacReedy soon realizes that he will not be allowed to leave Black Rock; town boss Reno Smith (Robert Ryan), who had Komoko killed because of his hatred of the Japanese, has also marked MacReedy for death. MacReedy must battle town thugs, a treacherous local woman (Anne Francis), and finally Smith himself to stay alive.

    Directed byJohn Sturges
    Written byHoward Breslin, Don McGuire
    CompanyMetro-Goldwyn-MayerMetro-Goldwyn-MayerMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer

    Starring

    Spencer Tracy
    Robert Ryan
    Anne Francis
    Dean Jagger
    Walter Brennan
    Ernest Borgnine
    Lee Marvin
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