Watched "Bad Day at Black Rock" today and really enjoyed it.

Spencer Tracy plays a one armed stranger who comes to a small town where the Southern Pacific never stops.

He's looking for his old friend, who saved his life in Italy, named Komoko who supposedly no longer lives in Black Rock, but was sent off to a Japanese internment camp four years ago.

There are some awesome performances; Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin.

Lee Marvin makes tucking in his shirt look so threatening.

Made me think of "Billy Jack" "Walking Tall" "Twin Peaks" and oddly "2001" and I believe I know why...

See, this town is dead. The people are frightened and depressed by a crime they committed in the past and they are stuck in a weird limbo. Like the bad programming HAL received in "2001" that made him paranoid, so too are the town folk, turning them into brutal killers protecting their secret.

There are some great shots in this film. Awesome compositions and framing. And it's in CINEMASCOPE and MGM Color