Bad Day at Black Rock

Name: Bad Day at Black Rock
Released: 1955-10-7
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan

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1h 21m
1955

97%

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Academy Award winner Spencer Tracy stars as John Macreedy, a World WarII veteran trying to find the father of the man who saved his life in this classic, taut drama about the evils of racial bigotry. Macreedy arrives one hot afternoon in 1945 aboard the first train to stop in Black Rock in three years. His search for a Japanese American farmer--to whose son he owes his life--leads to this small Western town's closely guarded secret ... a racially motivated murder ... and to the local citizens who will kill again to keep their crime hidden.

Director:

John Sturges

Producer:

Dore Schary

Writer:

Millard Kaufman

Cast:

Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine, John Ericson, Lee Marvin, Russell Collins, Walter Sande

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

97%

Reviews

Film Culture

George N. Fenin

The skill of some sequences, the mood and symbiosis between man and nature makes this film sometimes superior to High Noon by Fred Zinnemann.

John Sturges's mise-en-scene is careful to expand to the dimensions of CinemaScope... Bad Day at Black Rock is not, however, a masterpiece; it is at best a sympathetic film, well done, that is sometimes engaging.

As a noir-tinged Western hybrid, the film is a classic character study, morality play, and adventurous mystery.

A tense, marvelous film-noir Western, if there is such a thing, and if not then this movie created the genre.

July 15, 2019

FULL REVIEW

At the Movies (Australia)

Margaret Pomeranz

I think it's really great the way it addresses the way small communities and isolated communities close in on themselves to protect ugliness.

August 15, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Additional Info

Genre:Thriller
Release Date:October 7, 1955
Languages:English
Captions:English
Audio Format:
Stereo
Screen Pass Eligible:Yes

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Bad Day at Black Rock

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