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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...
25 July 1894, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
5 April 1900, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
19 February 1924, New York City, New York, USA
16 September 1930, Ossining, New York, USA
11 October 1897, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
23 September 1926, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
9 July 1906, Denver, Colorado, USA
7 November 1903, Columbus Grove, Ohio, USA
24 January 1917, Hamden, Connecticut, USA
11 November 1909, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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!
August 16, 2012
Famous suspense film, with a history lesson and Civil Rights message.
September 09, 2008
Considerable excitement is whipped up in this suspense drama, and fans who go for tight action will find it entirely satisfactory.
July 29, 2012
Serves as a moralizing Hollywood lecture on racial prejudice against Japanese-Americans during World War II.
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.
September 23, 2010
Fabulous 1955 Spencer Tracy story of prejudice.
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
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.
March 27, 2009
An action film for people who don't like action films.
