Bad Day at Black Rock

Guest host Madeleine Stowe introduces Bad Day At Black Rock, 1955.

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Ben Mankiewicz introduces Bad Day At Black Rock, 1955.

TCM's new Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces Bad Day At Black Rock, 1955.

TCM's Saturday afternoon host Tiffany Vazquez introduces Bad Day At Black Rock, 1955.

Guest host Dave Karger introduces Bad Day At Black Rock, 1955.

Rebuffed by the sheriff, Macready (Spencer Tracy) gets the outwardly friendliest welcome he'll receive, from locally-influential Reno (Robert Ryan) and then Liz (Anne Francis), her first scene, as tension builds in John Sturges' Bad Day At Black Rock, 1955.

One-armed veteran Macready (Spencer Tracy) is more than equal to a challenge from thug Coley (Ernest Borgnine), whose boss Reno (Robert Ryan) does not intervene, in John Sturges' contemporary Western Bad Day At Black Rock, 1955.

A one-armed veteran (Spencer Tracy) uncovers small-town secrets in the suspense thriller, Bad Day at Black Rock (1955).

First scene following the arrival of MacReady (Spencer Tracy), in which he tangles with clerk Pete (John Ericson) and is watched closely by Hector (Lee Marvin) in John Sturges' Bad Day At Black Rock, 1955.

Having put himself in danger by asking about a missing Japanese farmer in this remote Arizona town, MacReady (Spencer Tracy) confers with relatively friendly doctor-mortician Veile (Walter Brennan), instigating a visit by thug Hector (Lee Marvin), in Bad Day At Black Rock, 1955.

If the train seems like an unstoppable force across the desert, probably not an accident, in the opening to John Sturges' Bad Day At Black Rock, 1955, starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Ryan.