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"Spencer Tracy - John J. Macreedy"
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Bad Day at Black Rock
Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 American 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 Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin. The film is a crime drama set in 1945 that contains elements of the revisionist Western genre. In the plot, a one-armed stranger (Tracy
"Spencer Tracy - John J. Macreedy"
"Walter Brennan - Doc T.R. Velie Jr."
"Dean Jagger - Sheriff Tim Horn"
"I was just wondering what all you people are worrying about...Not that I have the slightest idea...I hold no truck with silence. Ive got nothing to hide...Its just that you worry about the stranger only if you look at him from a certain aspect. From my perspective, I look upon him with the innocence of a fresh-laid egg."
"Ernest Borgnine - Coley Trimble"
"Four years ago, something terrible happened here. We did nothing about it. Nothing! The whole town fell into a sort of settled melancholy, and all the people in it closed their eyes, and held their tongues, and failed the test with a whimper. And now something terribles going to happen again. And, in a way, were lucky because weve been given a second chance."