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Bad Day at Black Rock

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1265L )
(2.50:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

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Bad Day at Black Rock
1955 - 81 min. - Color
Genre: Thriller
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
This powerfully tense, fast-paced suspense drama also yields a grim social message about racial prejudice. Spencer Tracy is John J. MacReedy, a one-armed stranger who comes to the tiny town of Black Rock one hot summer day in 1945, the first time the train has stopped there in years. He looks for both a hotel room and a local Japanese farmer named Komoko, but his inquiries are greeted at first with open hostility at first, then with blunt threats and harassment, and finally with escalating violence. MacReedy soon realizes that he will not be allowed to leave Black Rock; town boss Reno Smith (Robert Ryan), who had Komoko killed because of his hatred of the Japanese, has also marked MacReedy for death. MacReedy must battle town thugs, a treacherous local woman (Anne Francis), and finally Smith himself to stay alive. The entire cast is flawless, especially Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin as the mean-spirited town bullies, and the relentlessly paced action never eclipses the film's sobering themes. --- Don Kaye

Director John Sturges received his only Academy Award nomination for his work on 1955's Bad Day at Black Rock. Sturges is best-known for his action-suspense movies (Gunfight at the OK Corral, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape); in his hands, the story of Bad Day at Black Rock --- a good-guy stranger comes to town and ends up the object of town hatred --- slowly comes to a boil. The film is similar in its ever-increasing intensity to many westerns, most notably Fred Zinnemann's High Noon. Archetypal good-guy Spencer Tracy is his usual honorable self, though without any of the characteristic whimsy; he was nominated for his fifth Oscar for the role, and was named best actor by the Cannes Film Festival and the New York Film Critics. Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin also deliver distinguished performances as Tracy's antagonistic enemies. Screenwriter Millard Kaufman was nominated for his second Academy Award, the first of which was for his previous effort, Take the High Ground. --- Brendon Hanley

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Cast for Bad Day at Black Rock

Spencer Tracy - John J. Macreedy
Robert Ryan - Reno Smith
Anne Francis - Liz Wirth
Dean Jagger - Tim Horn
Walter Brennan - Doc Velie
Ernest Borgnine - Coley Trimble
John Ericson - Pete Wirth
Lee Marvin - Hector David
Russell Collins - Mr. Hastings
Walter Sande - Sam

Crew for Bad Day at Black Rock

John Sturges - Director
Howard Hoffman - Producer
Dore Schary - Producer
Howard Breslin - Book Author
Millard Kaufman - Screenwriter
Don McGuire - Screenwriter
M. Niall - Book Author
William Mellor - Cinematographer
Andre Previn - Composer (Music Score)
Newell P. Kimlin - Editor
Malcolm Brown - Art Director
Cedric Gibbons - Art Director
Fred MacLean - Set Designer
Edwin B. Willis - Set Designer
Joel Freeman - First Assistant Director

Awards for Bad Day at Black Rock

Best Actor (nom) Spencer Tracy 1955 Academy
Best Director (nom) John Sturges 1955 Academy
Best Screenplay (nom) Millard Kaufman 1955 Academy
Best Film - Any Source John Sturges 1955 British Academy Awards
International Prize- Best Actor (win) Spencer Tracy 1955 Cannes International Film Festival
Best Director (nom) John Sturges 1955 Directors Guild of America
Best Picture (nom) 1955 National Board of Review
Best Actor (nom) Spencer Tracy 1955 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Direction (nom) John Sturges 1955 New York Film Critics Circle

Feature Details

Title: Bad Day at Black Rock
Feature Release Date: 1955
Genre: Thriller
Rating: Not Rated
Color: Color
Runtime: 81 Minutes
Chapters: 19
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 2.50:1
Playback Format: CLV

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LD Release Date: 16 Aug 1991
Catalog Number: CC1265L
UPC: 715515002370
ISBN: 1-55940-149-4
Manufacturer: DADC USA
Collection: Criterion Collection
Publisher: Criterion

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: CC1265L
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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Rare Widescreen, Special LaserDisc Movie

Near-Mint LaserDisc and Jacket with edge-wear

Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin in...

Bad Day at Black Rock

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1265L )
(2.50:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
See the History of Criterion LaserDiscs at DaDon's...

Bad Day at Black Rock
1955 - 81 min. - Color
Genre: Thriller
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Review:
This powerfully tense, fast-paced suspense drama also yields a grim social message about racial prejudice. Spencer Tracy is John J. MacReedy, a one-armed stranger who comes to the tiny town of Black Rock one hot summer day in 1945, the first time the train has stopped there in years. He looks for both a hotel room and a local Japanese farmer named Komoko, but his inquiries are greeted at first with open hostility at first, then with blunt threats and harassment, and finally with escalating violence. MacReedy soon realizes that he will not be allowed to leave Black Rock; town boss Reno Smith (Robert Ryan), who had Komoko killed because of his hatred of the Japanese, has also marked MacReedy for death. MacReedy must battle town thugs, a treacherous local woman (Anne Francis), and finally Smith himself to stay alive. The entire cast is flawless, especially Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin as the mean-spirited town bullies, and the relentlessly paced action never eclipses the film's sobering themes. --- Don Kaye

Director John Sturges received his only Academy Award nomination for his work on 1955's Bad Day at Black Rock. Sturges is best-known for his action-suspense movies (Gunfight at the OK Corral, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape); in his hands, the story of Bad Day at Black Rock --- a good-guy stranger comes to town and ends up the object of town hatred --- slowly comes to a boil. The film is similar in its ever-increasing intensity to many westerns, most notably Fred Zinnemann's High Noon. Archetypal good-guy Spencer Tracy is his usual honorable self, though without any of the characteristic whimsy; he was nominated for his fifth Oscar for the role, and was named best actor by the Cannes Film Festival and the New York Film Critics. Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin also deliver distinguished performances as Tracy's antagonistic enemies. Screenwriter Millard Kaufman was nominated for his second Academy Award, the first of which was for his previous effort, Take the High Ground. --- Brendon Hanley

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Cast for Bad Day at Black Rock

Spencer Tracy - John J. Macreedy
Robert Ryan - Reno Smith
Anne Francis - Liz Wirth
Dean Jagger - Tim Horn
Walter Brennan - Doc Velie
Ernest Borgnine - Coley Trimble
John Ericson - Pete Wirth
Lee Marvin - Hector David
Russell Collins - Mr. Hastings
Walter Sande - Sam

Crew for Bad Day at Black Rock

John Sturges - Director
Howard Hoffman - Producer
Dore Schary - Producer
Howard Breslin - Book Author
Millard Kaufman - Screenwriter
Don McGuire - Screenwriter
M. Niall - Book Author
William Mellor - Cinematographer
Andre Previn - Composer (Music Score)
Newell P. Kimlin - Editor
Malcolm Brown - Art Director
Cedric Gibbons - Art Director
Fred MacLean - Set Designer
Edwin B. Willis - Set Designer
Joel Freeman - First Assistant Director

Awards for Bad Day at Black Rock

Best Actor (nom) Spencer Tracy 1955 Academy
Best Director (nom) John Sturges 1955 Academy
Best Screenplay (nom) Millard Kaufman 1955 Academy
Best Film - Any Source John Sturges 1955 British Academy Awards
International Prize- Best Actor (win) Spencer Tracy 1955 Cannes International Film Festival
Best Director (nom) John Sturges 1955 Directors Guild of America
Best Picture (nom) 1955 National Board of Review
Best Actor (nom) Spencer Tracy 1955 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Direction (nom) John Sturges 1955 New York Film Critics Circle

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