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Film of the Week: Bad Day at Black Rock

on BBC One London

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 trace a man whose son saved his life in the war, but all he encounters is open hostility - and a wall of silence...
(This Week's Films: page 19)

Contributors

Screenplay :
Millard Kaufman
Based on a story by:
Howard Breslin
Producer:
Dore Schary
Director:
John Sturges
John J Macreedy:
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
Mr Hastings:
Russell Collins
Sam:
Walter Sande

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