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Bad Day At Black Rock

March51
March51 Posts: 3,256
edited July 2012 in Not Sports Related
I know there's a few out there that like this old movie: it's on Film4 (Sky ch.315/6) at 12.30 and 1.30 this afternoon. 'Midnight Express', another decent one is on later today too.

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  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,413
    I use this as an expression quite a bit - it does provoke a few questions.
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    Next time you have a chat you can impress your chums by telling them there are five Oscar winning actors in the film. Tracy (twice), Borgnine, Jagger and Brennan had all won, Marvin was to follow.
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,172
    I can't remember if I've ever seen it but I've always liked the title and often used it myself when I'd had a bad day, was spencer tracy the leading man and who was the leading lady?

    midnight express is a good film, I've seen it a few times and one of those times was with my father at a drive in sydney australia. it was an uncomfortable moment because one of the trailers before the feature was for a soft porn movie. one the first things to come on screen was a giant cock?%~}> it would of been ok if one of us had made some humorous quip but neither of us did. honestly you could of cut the silence and embarrassment with a knife and to add to the uncomfortableness the windows started steaming over, very funny now but definitely not at the time?%~}>
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    edited July 2012
    It's set shortly after WWII in a tiny, parched and dusty one-horse town where the train 'The Flyer' never stops, except just once to allow Spencer Tracy off. A one armed ex-soldier he soon comes up against chief baddie Robert Ryan and his henchman Marvin and Borgnine. The town has a nasty, guilty secret which Tracy gradually uncovers. The only female you see is played by Anne Francis but there is little, if any, romance: this is a man's film with Lee Marvin at his meanest. I remember it well because it was the first film I saw at the long gone Super cinema in Gravesend (it became a furniture shop I think) and also saw it with my dad, but there was no porn to worry about in those days. Well, not in Gravesend anyway!

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