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Bad Day at Black Rock
This drama yields a grim social message about racial prejudice. Spencer Tracy is John J. MacReedy, a one-armed stranger who comes to the tiny town of Black Rock one hot summer day in 1945. He looks for both a hotel room and a local Japanese farmer named Komoko, but...
8 November 1941, Toledo, Ohio, USA
10 January 1901, Indian Territory, USA [now Oklahoma, USA]
23 September 1926, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
7 November 1903, Columbus Grove, Ohio, USA
24 January 1910, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
September 4, 1911 in Miami, Oklahoma, USA
26 October 1922, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
11 October 1897, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
31 July 1902, Hutchinson, Kansas, USA
19 February 1924, New York City, New York, USA
11 November 1909, Chicago, Illinois, USA
9 July 1906, Denver, Colorado, USA
May 20, 2003
Slowly, through a process of guarded discourse, which Director John Sturges has built up by patient, methodical pacing of his almost completely mate cast, an eerie light begins to glimmer.
January 26, 2006
Nicely put together by Sturges, its suspense derives largely from the excellent performances and imaginative use of the 'Scope frame by cameraman William C Mellor.
May 24, 2010
a portrait of American distrust leading into the potent paranoia of the Cold War
July 29, 2012
Serves as a moralizing Hollywood lecture on racial prejudice against Japanese-Americans during World War II.
August 16, 2012
Famous suspense film, with a history lesson and Civil Rights message.
March 27, 2009
An action film for people who don't like action films.
September 23, 2010
Fabulous 1955 Spencer Tracy story of prejudice.
September 09, 2008
Considerable excitement is whipped up in this suspense drama, and fans who go for tight action will find it entirely satisfactory.
February 17, 2005
Superb, if it weren't, as we said, for the too-obvious liberal teachings that interrupt the terrific ation.
May 19, 2010
John Sturges's macho B-picture is more brawn than brains...but what brawn!
March 04, 2014
I think it's really great the way it addresses the way small communities and isolated communities close in on themselves to protect ugliness.