Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

Starring Spencer Tracy, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine, Dean Jagger, Anne Francis, and John Ericson. Directed by John Sturges. John MacReedy, a one-armed stranger, comes to the tiny town of Black Rock one hot summer day in 1945, the first time the train has stopped there in years. He looks for both a hotel room and a local Japanese farmer named Komoko, but his inquiries are greeted at first with open hostility, then with blunt threats and harassment, and finally with escalating violence. MacReedy soon realizes that he will not be allowed to leave Black Rock; town boss Reno Smith, who had Komoko killed because of his hatred of the Japanese, has also marked MacReedy for death. MacReedy must battle town thugs, a treacherous local woman, and finally Smith himself to stay alive.