How did I miss this one until now?
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) is a masterwork. Spencer Tracy stars as Macreedy, a one-armed war vet who comes to a ghost town to give a medal to the parents of one of his fallen war buddies. The town is controlled by Reno Smith (Robert Ryan), who keeps Macreedy from contacting authorities when he discovers that the town has hidden the hate-crime murder of a Japanese American farmer.
The use of the frame creates a feeling of pending suffocation in the midst of blue skies and beautiful hills. Brilliant!
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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