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    • When Smith starts shooting at him, Macreedy shelters behind the Jeep. Liz rushes to Smith despite Macreedy's warning. Smith tells her that she has to die along with the rest of his accomplices, and shoots her in the back as she flees. Macreedy finds a bottle and fills it with petrol from the Jeep. See more

    Content ratingTV-PG
    GenreCrime · Drama · Mystery · Thriller · Western
    Directed byJohn Sturges
    Overview

    Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 American film noir neo-Western film directed by John Sturges with screenplay by Millard Kaufman. It stars Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan with support from Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Bre… See more

    Plot

    In late 1945, one-armed John J. Macreedy gets off a train at the isolated Californian desert hamlet of Black Rock. The residents are suspicious, as this is the first time in four years that the train has stopped there. After Macre… See more

    Cast

    Spencer Tracy as John J. Macreedy
    Robert Ryan as Reno Smith
    Anne Francis as Liz Wirth
    Dean Jagger as Sheriff Tim Horn… See more

    Production

    Bad Day at Black Rock originated as a short story by Howard Breslin with full-color illustrations by Robert Fawcett. Entitled "Bad Time at Honda", it was published by The American Magazine in January 1947. It was adapte… See more

    Themes

    Film historian Stuart M. Kaminsky in American Film Genres (1985) contrasts the ideology that guides Spencer Tracy’s McCreedy with the key motivating factor in samurai tradition:
    There is a … See more

     
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  1. Interiors were filmed on the lot at MGM, but the desert exteriors were shot on the edge of Death Valley, at Lone Pine on Route 395, central California.
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  4. WEBMay 19, 2005 · Bad Day at Black Rock marked MGMs first release shot in Cinemascope, and Sturges, nominated for an Academy Award for the film, transforms the expansive emptiness of his frame into an omnipresent …

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    WEBBut the mind game worked, and Tracy, however reluctantly, committed to making the film. The rest of the almost all-male cast was comprised of Robert Ryan, Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Walter Brennan, Dean …

  6. WEBSep 2, 2013 · A genre-mixing western noir (or noir western -- either way,) Bad Day at Black Rock was the first MGM film to be shot in CinemaScope, and Sturges showed a talent for composing images in …

  7. WEBBad Day at Black Rock, American mystery film, released in 1955, that fused elements of the western with those of film noir. It was based on Howard Breslin’s short story “Bad Time at Honda” (1947).

  8. WEBIt's adapted by Don McGuire and Millard Kaufman from the story "Bad Day at Hondo" written by Howard Breslin. It's shot on location in CinemaScope and Eastman Color at Lone Pine, Death Valley & Alabama Hills in

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