Directed by John Sturges from a story by Howard Breslin that originally appeared in The American Magazine, BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1955) features Spencer Tracy as a laconic, one-armed stranger who comes to the isolated town of Black Rock seeking the father of a Japanese man with whom he’d served in combat – but ends up delivering justice on behalf of the elder man, who’d been killed at the hands of the small-minded townsfolk. One of cinema’s great screen legends, Tracy was named by the American Film Institute among the art form’s shining stars.
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