My summertime movietime pick this week is Bad Day at Black Rock. This movie stars Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, and Anne Francis. If that isn’t enough to get you interested, check out the co-stars, Walter Brennan (one of my personal favs), Ernest Borgnine, and Lee Marvin. That is without a doubt an all-star cast.
The movie is about a stranger that comes to a small town, almost a ghost town, and starts asking some questions. The questions make some people really uncomfortable and the questions make some downright homicidal. Robert Ryan, who if you have seen in the movie Crossfire, sure can play a bad dude and in this movie he is the ringleader of the whole town. Spencer Tracy plays the stranger and does a great job at being a seemingly nice old man, while hiding a stronger person within. You seem to get the idea that if push comes to shove, then Tracy’s character can handle his business.
This is a great movie and I highly recommend it. It was so good that it seemed like it was over in a half hour. The suspense is high and to see the people either crack or keep their allegiance to Ryan makes the lesser characters as interesting as the main characters. It is a Western without the cowboys and Indians and is well worth your time.
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
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