Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

1955 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)
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Mystery Racism 1940s

One of the first Hollywood films to deal openly with white racism toward Japanese Americans during World War II, this drama directed by 1950s action maestro John Sturges (The Great Escape) stars Spencer Tracy as a one-armed stranger named MacReedy, who arrives in the tiny town of Black Rock on a hot day in 1945. Seeking a hotel room and the whereabouts of an ethnic Japanese farmer named Komoko, MacReedy runs smack into a wall of hostility that escalates into serious threats. In time it becomes apparent that Komoko has been murdered by a local, racist chieftain, Reno Smith (Robert Ryan), who also plans on dispensing with MacReedy. Tracy's hero is forced to fight his way past Smith's goons (among them Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin) and sundry allies (Anne Francis) to keep alive, setting the stage for memorable suspense crisply orchestrated by Sturges.

Direction John Sturges

Cast Spencer Tracy · Robert Ryan · Lee Marvin · Anne Francis · Dean Jagger · Ernest Borgnine · Walter Brennan · John Ericson · Walter Sande

Soundtrack Andre Previn

Screenplay Millard Kaufman

Cinematography William C. Mellor

Original title Bad Day at Black Rock

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