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Bad Day at Black Rock
Capsule by Dave Kehr
From the Chicago Reader

An action film for people who don't like action films, directed in overstated CinemaScope by John Sturges in 1955. Spencer Tracy is a mysterious one-armed man in black who faces down the residents of a small isolated town, whom he suspects of having killed his Japanese war buddy. Spence knows karate, Robert Ryan and the rest of the rednecks don't; but everybody can moralize like hell.

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