Film Listings – Bognor Regis Observer – Friday, 17 August 1956

PAVILION, SELSEY. A STRANGER steps from a train at a small station in America and the town goes through 24 hours of terror. It is a day of doubts, fears, mistrusts and mystery. Who is this man and what is his mission? These are the questions posed by the gripping drama, "BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK ." Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan and Anne Francis are the stars of this production, which is set in the South-west. Recognized as a masterful production and graced by two "Oscar" performances by the leading stars, "THE ROSE TATTOO", tells the unusual story of the idolatrous and misplaced devotion of Sicilian-born Serafino. (Anna Magnani) to the memory of her husband—whose ashes she keeps in her simple home in a seedy American coastal town. An amorous but self-frustrated woman, who lives only in her happy past, she steels herself against the attentions of Alvaro (Burt Lancaster), a sincere simpleton resembling her husband in physique but with the head of a clown, who drives a banana truck, as her husband did and who, to overpower her sensibilities, has a rose tattooed on his chest in imitation of her husband. The literal taste and smell of the West—rawhide and leather saddle, sun on steel-barrelled six-shooters, sudden primitive violence, hazy blue of far horizons and the single-mindedness of fighting men have all been captured on the screen to a remarkable degree in "THE MAN FROM LARAMIE," starring James Stewart. The film is in CinemaScope and Technicolor.