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By Radiator Perlman

Updated 27 October 2017

Artist	MGM
Credit	eBayFront and back
License	pd
Desc	John Ericson in Rhapsody (1953)
Usage	Public domain

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1955 film by John Sturges

Bad Day at Black Rock

Released	1955 (67 years, 2 months ago)

Director	John Sturges
Duration	81 minutes
Genre	mystery film, film adaptation and drama film
Nominated for	Academy Award for Best Actor, Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
Composer	André Previn
Production company	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Country of origin	United States of America
Screenwriter	Millard Kaufman and Don McGuire
Producer	Dore Schary

About Bad Day at Black Rock

Bad Day at Black Rock is a 1955 Eastman Color in CinemaScope thriller directed by John Sturges and starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan that combines elements of the western with that of film noir. The supporting cast includes Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Lee Marvin, and Ernest Borgnine. The film tells the story of a mysterious stranger who arrives at a tiny isolated town in a desert of the southwest United States in search of a man. The film was adapted by Don McGuire and Millard Kaufman from the short story "Bad Time at Honda" by Howard Breslin. The original story had appeared in The American Magazine in January 1947, with full-color illustrations by Robert Fawcett.