To look at Spencer Tracy now, you wouldn’t have thought that he could have been convincing as a badass, particularly once he had passed middle age. But anyone who’s seen John Sturges’ Bad Day at Black Rock- the source of last week’s quiz- might beg to differ. After arriving mysteriously on sunny day on the Streamliner, Tracy proceeds to clean up the most rotten town in the West, doling out one-armed ass-beatings to anyone who stands in his way. It’s a hell of a movie, with perhaps Tracy’s last performance before he began playing senior citizens full-time, and a supporting cast that includes such manly-man staples as Robert Ryan, Ernest Borgnine, Walter Brennan, Lee Marvin, and, uh, Anne Francis. Congrats to those who guessed correctly.
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