Home
Showtimes & Tickets
Top Box Office
Trailers & More
In Theaters
Coming Soon
New on DVD
Critics' Reviews
Photos
News
Blog
Superfans
Overview
Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Critics' Reviews
User Reviews
Trailers &
Clips
Photos
News
Similar Movies
Showtimes &
Tickets
Awards &
Nominations
On DVD

Bad Day at Black Rock

:

Overview
Bad Day at Black Rock
Critics' Rating:
read review
Avg. User Rating:
3 ratings
Your Rating:
write a review
NR,1hr 21min
Genres:
Drama,Action
Release:
1955
Director:
John Sturges
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis  ...more
Synopsis: This powerfully tense, fast-paced suspense drama also 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, 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 ... Full Synopsis
Critics' Reviews
View Full Reviews
Brendon Hanley, AMG Review
Director John Sturges received his only Academy Award nomination for his work on 1955's Bad Day at Black Rock. Sturges is best-known for his action-suspense movies (Gunfight at the OK Corral, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape); in his hands, the story of Bad Day at Black Rock -- a good-guy stranger comes to town and ends up the object of town hatred -- slowly comes to a boil. The film is similar ... Full Review
Featured Cast
View More Cast & Crew
Spencer Tracy
John J. Macreedy
Robert Ryan
Reno Smith
Anne Francis
Liz Wirth
Dean Jagger
Tim Horn
advertisement


Privacy
Legal
Advertise
RSS
Site map
Feedback
Help
|
© 2009 Microsoft