Bad Day at Black Rock Movie on TCM

Watch the 1955 classic movie Bad Day at Black Rock on TCM at 8 p.m. tonight. It is a film about a one-armed man (Spencer Tracy) vs. a sinister desert town.

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) is both a tightly-written, suspenseful, dramatic action film and a western. On the surface, this American film classic is concerned with the themes of individual integrity, group conformity and complacency, and civic responsibility. It can also be seen as a powerful, allegorical indictment of the Hollywood blacklist, created during the climate of suspicion and fear of the 1950s McCarthy era.