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Bad Day at Black Rock

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

Starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin
with Anne Francis, Dean Jagger

Spencer Tracy plays the one-armed stranger who gets off the express train at the little Western town of Black Rock - the first passenger for four years to do so. Tracy's purpose is to find a man whose son saved his life in the war, but all he encounters is a sinister wall of silence...
(Holiday Films: pages 13 and 15)
(Colour)

Contributors

Screenplay:
Millard Kaufman
Based on a story by:
Howard Breslin
Producer:
Dore Schary
Director:
John Sturges
John J. Macready:
Spencer Tracy
Reno Smith:
Robert Ryan
Liz Wirth:
Anne Francis
Tim Horn:
Dean Jagger
Doc Velie:
Walter Brennan
Pete Wirth:
John Ericson
Coley Trimble:
Ernest Borgnine
Hector David:
Lee Marvin
Source: Radio Times

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