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Bad Day at Black Rock
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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...
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...
Actors:
Bobby Johnson,
Francis McDonald,
Harry Harvey,
Billy Dix,
Lee Marvin,
Anne Francis,
Mickey Little
Bobby Johnson
24 January 1910, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Francis McDonald
22 August 1891, Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA
Harry Harvey
10 January 1901, Indian Territory, USA [now Oklahoma, USA]
Billy Dix
September 4, 1911 in Miami, Oklahoma, USA
Lee Marvin
19 February 1924, New York City, New York, USA
Anne Francis
16 September 1930, Ossining, New York, USA
Mickey Little
8 November 1941, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#Anne Francis #Bad Day at Black Rock #John Sturges #Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) #Robert Ryan #Spencer Tracy
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Bobby Johnson
24 January 1910, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Francis McDonald
22 August 1891, Bowling Green, Kentucky, USA
Harry Harvey
10 January 1901, Indian Territory, USA [now Oklahoma, USA]
Billy Dix
September 4, 1911 in Miami, Oklahoma, USA
Lee Marvin
19 February 1924, New York City, New York, USA
Anne Francis
16 September 1930, Ossining, New York, USA
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Filmcritic.com
May 24, 2010
a portrait of American distrust leading into the potent paranoia of the Cold War
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.
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.
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.
May 19, 2010
John Sturges's macho B-picture is more brawn than brains...but what brawn!
July 29, 2012
Serves as a moralizing Hollywood lecture on racial prejudice against Japanese-Americans during World War II.
February 17, 2005
Superb, if it weren't, as we said, for the too-obvious liberal teachings that interrupt the terrific ation.
September 23, 2010
Fabulous 1955 Spencer Tracy story of prejudice.
March 27, 2009
An action film for people who don't like action films.
New York Times
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.