I just watched this for the first time a few months ago after seeing it on the 1001 Movies to See Before You Die list. I have been singing its praises to everybody! Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine are perfect in trying to agitate a calm Spenser Tracy. I do weekly movie night at my house and I think I might show this soon. Thanks for writing about this here.
RE: Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
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Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
It's a chilling film for sure, yet so very very deeply warm and human but with no cheap pathos nor any sentimentality whatsoever. "Raw" is a good way of describing it, no lose ends, no extra parts - just human. You can feel that Spencer Tracy really poured his soul into the role... the ending doesn't fail to give me a shiver every time I watch it. And the theme is... strikingly fresh for our times (or any times...) So glad new people are still discovering it!
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