Bad day at Black Rock : [screenplay / by Millard Kaufman]. by Kaufman, Millard

“…Bad day at Black Rock (Motion picture)…”

Bad day at Black Rock / produced by Dore Schary ; screenplay by Millard Kaufman ; directed by John Sturges.

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Bad day at Black Rock / produced by Dore Schary ; screenplay by Millard Kaufman ; directed by John Sturges.

Bad day at black rock (1955) : continuity script / written by Millard Kaufman and Howard Breslin ; adapted by Don McGuire. by McGuire, Don, 1919-1999

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Post-westerns : cinema, region, West / Neil Campbell. by Campbell, Neil, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Mourning in America : The Lusty Men (1952) and Bad Day at Black Rock (1954) --…”
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The lion's roar : classic MGM film scores, 1935-1965 / M-G-M Studio Orchestra.

Table of Contents: “…Mutiny on the Bounty -- The good earth -- The women -- The Wizard of Oz -- The Philadelphia story -- Random harvest -- The clock -- The yearling -- Madame Bovary -- The prisoner of Zenda -- Lili -- Ivanhoe -- Invitation -- The bad and the beautiful -- Bad day at Black Rock -- I'll cry tomorrow -- Lust for life -- Designing woman. …”

Blue latitudes : boldly going where Captain Cook has gone before / Tony Horwitz. by Horwitz, Tony, 1958-2019

Table of Contents: “…Pacific Nothwest: one week before the mast -- Tahiti: Sic transit Venus -- To Bora-Bora: sold a pup -- New Zealand: warriors, still -- Botany Bay: in the pure state of nature -- The Great Barrier Reef: wrecked -- Homeward bound: the hospital ship -- Savage island: the hunt for red banana -- Tonga: where time begins, and goes back -- North Yorkshire: a plain, zealous man -- London: shipping out, again -- Alaska: outside men -- Hawaii: the last island -- Kealakekua Bay: a bad day on black rock.…”

John Sturges / 3DD Entertainment.

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No, but I saw the movie : the best short stories ever made into film / edited by David Wheeler ; with a foreword by Bruce Jay Friedman.

Table of Contents: “…All about eve : from "The wisdom of eve" / by Mary Orr -- Bad day at black rock : from "Bad time at honda" / by Howard Breslin -- Blow-up from "Blow-Up" / by Julio Cort'azar -- The body snatcher : from "The body snatcher" / by Robert Louis Stevenson -- Don't look now : from "Don't look now" / by Daphne du Maurier -- The fly : from "The fly" / by George Langelaan -- Freaks from "Spurs" / by Tod Robbins -- Guys and dolls : from "The idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" / by Damon Runyon -- The heartbreak kid : from "A change of plan" / by Bruce Jay Friedman -- High noon : from "The tin star" / by John M. …”

A real American character : the life of Walter Brennan / Carl Rollyson. by Rollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund)

Table of Contents: “…The beginning (1894-1927) -- The racket (1928-35) -- Acclaim and awards: Samuel Goldwyn, Howard Hawks, Fritz Lang, and how Walter Brennan became a real character (1934-39) -- The apotheosis of Walter Brennan (1940) -- Primal Brennan: Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Capra, Jean Renoir, Howard Hawks (1940-44) -- Western Brennan: Bob Hope, Henry Fonda, John Wayne, John Ford, Howard Hawks (1944-48) -- Western Brennan redux: Robert Mitchum, James Stewart, Spencer Tracy, John Wayne The far country, Bad day at Black Rock, Rio Bravo (1948-58) -- The real McCoys: America's grandpa (1957-63) -- The politics of becoming Walter Brennan (1960-73) -- The legacy years (1969-74).…”
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Thrillers : seven decades of classic film suspense / John McCarty. by McCarty, John, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Sparrows (1926) -- Submarine (1928) -- Terror Abroad (1933) -- The 39 Steps (1935) -- Fury (1936) -- Man Hunt (1941) -- Double Indemnity (1944) -- The Woman in the Window (1944) -- Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) -- White Heat (1949) -- The Window (1949) -- Strangers on a Train (1951) -- Rawhide (1951) -- The Tall Target (1951) --The Narrow Margin (1952) -- The Hitch-Hiker (1953) -- The Wages of Fear (1953) -- Rear Window (1954) -- Suddenly (1954) -- Rififi (1954) -- The Desperate Hours (1955) -- Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) -- Kiss Me Deadly (1955) -- The Night My Number Came Up (1955) -- The Night of the Hunter (1955) -- Abandon Ship! …”

Movies / edited by Gilbert Adair.

Table of Contents: “…Hoberman -- How to play Indians ; How to recognize a porn movie / Umberto Eco -- Re: Bad day at Black Rock / Wim Wenders -- Three-dimentia / Arch Oboler -- The imagination of disaster / Susan Sontag -- Million-dollar graffiti : notes from the digital domain / Jonathan Romney -- Theorizing -- The era of the image has arrived / Abel Gance -- Speech at the premiere of A propos de Nice / Jean Vigo -- An overwhelming film ; On dubbing / Jorge Luis Borges -- Black and white / Colette -- A king in New York : King Kong / Claude Ollier -- An inquiry / Rene Clair -- Some ideas on the cinema / Cesare Zavattini -- From notes on cinematography / Robert Bresson -- The Romans in films ; The face of Garbo / Roland Barthes -- Free replay (notes on Vertigo) / Chris Marker -- Despising what you sell / Wim Wenders -- Apocalypse now ; The China syndrome / Jean Baudrillard -- Just place, preferably architectural place / Peter Greenaway -- Reflecting -- Filming death / Bela Balazs -- The wandering Jew / Erwin Leiser -- What is cinema for us? …”

A history of evil in popular culture : what Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King, and vampires reveal about America / Sharon Packer and Jody Pennington, editors.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 21: The Evil of Hunger and Survival in The RoadChapter 22: ""Freddy''s Shadow"": Nostalgia, Evil, and the 1980s in A Nightmare on Elm Street; Chapter 23: ""We''re Them and They''re Us"": Zombies as a Reflection of American Culture; Chapter 24: Bad Day at Black Rock and the Overcoming of Evil; Chapter 25: Viewing Evil through a Hollywood Lens, via Steven Spielberg''s Schindler''s List; Chapter 26: Will and Programming: Good and Evil in Terminators and Humanity; PART II: MUSIC AND LYRICS…”
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