Word: spencers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first of two Theodore Spencer Memorial Lectures on drama will be presented at 4 p.m. today in Fogg Large Lecture Room by Tom Patterson, artistic director of the Canadian Stratford Festival...
...Black Rock. Spencer Tracy is first-rate as a stranger among sullen evildoers in a cat-and-mouse game set in the Southwest (TIME...
Although the characters in Bad Day at Black Rock chase each other with automobiles instead of horses, the movie is unquestionably a western. When Spencer Tracy steps off the streamliner into the Arizona hamlet, it is the first time the train has stopped there in for years. Vast desert countryside, in CinemaScope, presents an appropriately morbid and untrammeled background for Black Rock, which contains the usual lawless gang and hapless sheriff. Conspicuously absent, however, is the stereotyped melodrama which might have brought Bad Day at Black Rock down to the level of typical cowboy films...
...sympathizer will be the town's most enthusiastic hockey fan, Mrs. Spencer Penrose, eighty-six-year-old owner of the Broadmoor Hotel, who hasn't missed a Championship game since she inaugurated the tournament in the Broadmoor Ice Palace in 1948. She has her special seat right beside the penalty box and usually makes it a point to meet every player waiting out the two-minute interval...
Such enlightened over-acting is, of course, quite difficult, and in general the cast does very well at it. Particularly convincing are Marion Spencer as the neurotic mother and Russell Enoch as her son. The latter looks very much like F. Scott Fitzgerald and plays the prep-school-boy-in-love type with just the right kind of awkwardness...