The Dryden will screen Bad Day at Black Rock (John Sturges, U.S. 1955, 81 min., 35mm) as part of the Ernest Borgnine series.

Smoldering rural hatred erupts as Spencer Tracy fights postwar bigotry in the male-dominated town of Black Rock, New Mexico. Tracy shines in an Oscar-nominated performance as the one-armed stranger whose presence threatens to expose a deadly secret. Director Sturges creates an aura of impending doom, and Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, and Robert Ryan provide the menace in this seminal dissection of small-town prejudice.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2017-Jan-9]