BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK (1954)

JOHN STURGES

Thriller Classics Detectives & Private Eyes 1940s Drama Nigel's Choice Western Disability & Mental Illness Murder Mystery Recommended

Cast

SPENCER TRACY ROBERT RYAN ANNE FRANCIS LEE MARVIN DEAN JAGGER WALTER BRENNAN JOHN ERICSON ERNEST BORGNINE RUSSELL COLLINS

Plot

A one-armed man descends from the train in a small Western settlement to hand over a war medal to a local farmer whose son had died fighting, but he meets only hostility from the locals. What are they hiding? Slowly the truth emerges and the townsfolk must opt between their evil past or their concsciences.