Yet that late-career gravitas was perhaps never put to better use than inJohn Sturges’sWestern noirBad Day at Black Rock.

The story of an aging rancher is downright Shakespearean.

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Spencer Tracy Is a One-Armed Man in Search of the Truth in This Tightly-Wound 81-Minute Thriller (Bad Day at Black Rock)

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The Spencer TracyRobert Wagner Western That Follows Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ (Broken Lance)

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Spencer Tracy hiding behind a truck in Bad Day at Black Rock

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