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Bad day at Black Rock [videorecording] / produced by Dore Schary ; screenplay by Millard Kaufman ; directed by John Sturges.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 66902 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2005.Edition: Widescreen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 0790792095
  • 9780790792095
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, William C. Mellor ; editor, Newell P. Kimlin ; Music, André Previn.
Awards:
  • Winner, best actor Spencer Tracy, 1955 Cannes Film Festival.
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Russell Collins, Walter Sande.Summary: A one-armed stranger arrives in a tiny desert town, the locals possessing a dark past they want to keep secret, by any means necessary.
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Adult DVD Adult DVD Dr. James Carlson Library DVD DRAMA Bad day Available 33111006633982
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This powerfully tense, fast-paced suspense drama also yields a grim social message about racial prejudice. 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 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. The entire cast is flawless, especially Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin as the mean-spirited town bullies, and the relentlessly paced action never eclipses the film's sobering themes. ~ Don Kaye, Rovi

"Not rated"--Container.

Based on the story: Bad day at Hondo / by Howard Breslin.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1954.

Special features: optional commentary by film historian Dana Polan; original theatrical trailer (4 min.).

Director of photography, William C. Mellor ; editor, Newell P. Kimlin ; Music, André Previn.

Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Russell Collins, Walter Sande.

A one-armed stranger arrives in a tiny desert town, the locals possessing a dark past they want to keep secret, by any means necessary.

DVD, region 1; Dolby digital surround stereo (English), Dolby mono (French).

Closed-captioned.

In English or dubbed French, with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish.

Winner, best actor Spencer Tracy, 1955 Cannes Film Festival.

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