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 Bad Day at Black Rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 film which tells the story of a stranger who comes to a small town to give the father of a Japanese-American soldier the medals that his son won.
The movie was adapted by Don McGuire and Millard Kaufman from the story Bad Day at Hondo by Howard Breslin.
This movie is particularly remembered for the powerhouse performance of Spencer Tracy as the stranger who comes to town and redefines the way the town was being run.
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 Bad Day at Black Rock
"Bad Day at Black Rock" (1955) is a milestone in film making for several reasons.
The DVD transfer for "Bad Day at Black Rock" is as good as is to be expected with minimal restoration efforts employed.
Bottom line: "Bad Day at Black Rock" is a seminal work of extremely taut staging and discerning acting flair.
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 Bad Day At Black Rock
Black Rock is a one-horse town lost in a time-warp, extending at right-angles from the tracks which, in the omniscient aerial shot, seem to extend across the harsh beauty of the Arizona desert into a wall of forbidding mountains.
It's a world of rocks alright and the town could be a ghost town, except for its cast of xenophobes who carry on as if this is 1865, not 1945.
Black Rock is a long way from Hawaii, yet the shadow of Pearl Harbor hangs over it like the trauma of the Alamo.
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And Bad Day at Black Rock (1955), the story of a hate crime in a small western town, and the bullying attempts by some townspeople to keep an outsider from finding out, certainly fits comfortably into those boundaries.
Bad Day at Black Rock was made at a time of professional and political upheaval in Hollywood.
Bad Day at Black Rock's contemporary western was the kind of allegory that Schary liked.
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 Bad Day at Black Rock (by L. Proyect)
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McCreedy came to Black Rock to present him with the medal that his son had won posthumously fighting side by side with him in Italy.
The memorable thing about John Sturges is that at least in the case of "Bad Day at Black Rock," our side is the human race.
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Those who could abide the town's evil secret find their position less tenable the longer Macreedy sticks around, and BAD DAY takes great delight in chronicling the changes.
I may keep the movie because it was so bad I got a bunch of laughs from it.
Whereas "High Noon" was considered a metaphor for McCarthyism, "Bad Day at Black Rock" tackles the theme of racism, in this case the prejudice that was prevalent at the time against Americans of Japanese descent.
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His arrival in the tiny southwestern whistle-stop of Black Rock in 1945 evokes fear and suspicion in its few inhabitants; no stranger has appeared in town for four years.
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK is a taut suspense story that seems to be always teetering on the edge of explosive violence.
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 Bad Day At Black Rock (1955)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) is both a tightly-written, suspenseful, dramatic action film (with film noirish qualities) and a western.
Eventually, he learns the town's dark secret, and fulfills the promise he made to present a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism to the farming father of a Japanese wartime buddy who had saved his life in World War II on the battlefields of Italy.
The fictional small town of Black Rock (California) serves as a microcosm of America in the post-war era.
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Folks In Black Rock have their own way of welcoming mysterious, one-armed stranger John J. Macreedy.
The film stars Spencer Tracy as the mysterious John MacReedy, a strong-willed, one-armed WWII vet visiting the small Western town of Black Rock for reasons that are his own.
But from the second he walks off the train (which hasn’t stopped at Black Rock for four years) it’s made perfectly clear that he is not wanted there.
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Suffice it to say that galore of the townspeople are inferior than thrilled to undergo the man-in-fl stranger, and his soon-to-be important nemesis, Reno Smith (Robert Ryan) makes it his business to undergo that the town's filthy onetime stays buried, by some means possible.
If Ryan's Reno represents an absolute evil, he's abetted by the venal (Ernest Borgnine and leeward Marvin, in particular), the spiritless (town doc Walter Brennan), and the exhausted (town sheriff Dean Jagger.) Things change, though, and the ground upon which in the flesh relationships are supported tends to shift.
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Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 film which tells the story of a stranger who comes to a small town to give the father of a (A constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building) Japanese-American soldier the medals that his son won.
It was directed by (Click link for more info and facts about John Sturges) John Sturges.
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Casting is the film's principal strength, however: Tracy, the indispensable icon of integrity, and Ryan, the indispensable noir image of spiritual blight, are as creatively unlikely a pairing as Sturges's shotgun marriage of Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen in The Magnificent Seven.
Never stooping to preach, "Bad Day at Black Rock" succeeds due to the high degree of integrity in every department.
It actually affected the English Language (the tired businessman tells his wife "I had a bad day at Black Rock at the office!") Tracy plays a one-armed returning veteran with a medal for the father of a Japanese-American comrade.
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 Encyclopedia: Bad Day at Black Rock
Other descriptions of Bad Day at Black Rock
Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin, (February 19, 1924 _ August 29, 1987) was an American film actor.
It was directed by John Eliot Sturges (3 January 1911 – 18 August 1982) Known as The dean of big-budget action movies made during the 1950s and 1960.
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 Nevada Journal: Bad Day at Black Rock
Richard Bryan's proposal to create a new National Conservation Area (NCA) in Nevada's Black Rock Desert is not in the public interest, and certainly not in the interest of Nevadans.
Now, in the Black Rock case, it is my understanding that such inventories have not been done.
But legacy should not, must not, be wrapped up with implementing agendas which are not in the public interest—or which adversely affect the livelihoods of those who can ill afford to battle powerful environmental interests to maintain their income, employment and stewardship of resources.
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Bad Day at Black Rock, motion picture dealing with the mistreatment of Japanese American citizens in the United States during World War II...
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"Bad Day at Black Rock" is a riveting suspense thriller with several memorable performances from a first rate cast.
Spencer Tracy (in one of his best roles) excels as John J. MacReedy who is in Black Rock to take a medal to the father of one of his wartime colleagues now that the war is over.
"Bad Day at Black Rock" is a tense and captivating film with the action taking place over a tight time period of just 24 hours.
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Bad Day at Black Rock - Cast, Crew, Reviews, Plot Summary, Comments,...
Bad Day at Black Rock was based on the short story "Bad Time at Hondo" by Howard Breslin and adapted by Don McGuire.
Bad Day at Black Rock, John Sturges, Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin,...
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User Comments: A bad day, a superb film (more)
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 The DVD Journal | Quick Reviews: Bad Day at Black Rock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
John Sturges's Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) is curiously paradoxical.
This is the first time a train has stopped in Black Rock in four years, and the townsfolk eye Macreedy with suspicion and contempt.
Part of Warner Home Video's "Controversial Classics Collection," Bad Day at Black Rock is presented in a good anamorphic transfer (2.55:1) with Dolby 2.0 Surround audio.
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 3BlackChicks...Guest Commentary (BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK)
A hot summer day in 1945, and for the first time in four years a train stops in the desert town of Black Rock.
Fields, the author of Screenplay: The Foundations, wrote (and he almost seems to have Bad Day at Black Rock in mind): "Beginnings and endings are related...No loose ends...Everything is resolved dramatically...all questions raised are answered."
Bad Day at Black Rock begins, we recall, with Macreedy's arrival on the Southern Pacific and ends with his departure.
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A nattily dressed one-armed man arrives in a small southwestern town and brings to light a dark, dirty secret the townspeople thought they had buried years ago.
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 AllReaders Bad Day at Black Rock Message Board
posts a message on 6/14/2005 4:47:36 PM While it is true that there is no marker at the site of the "Bad Day at Black Rock" set location, once a year during the Lone Pine Film Festival a tour is sponsored that includes the "Bad Day" location and they post a temporary sign there.
The movie Bad Day at Black Rock is on e of my all time favorites.
There were railroad tracks across Highway 395 from the hotel, and my mother told me we all stood on our front porch and watched the train you see in the start of "Bad Days at Black Rock" go by.
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