Bad Day at Black Rock
6,975
Mystery
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 ... [+]
Author | Review | ||
---|---|---|---|
United States | Time Out | "John Sturges's macho B-picture is more brawn than brains...but what brawn!" | POS |
United Kingdom | Empire | "A nerve-shredding masterpiece." | POS |
United States | Chicago Tribune | "An action film for people who don't like action films." | POS |
United States | Variety | "Considerable excitement is whipped up in this suspense drama, and fans who go for tight action will find it entirely satisfactory" | POS |
We encourage you to check the reviews' original sources. Intellectual property rights of these reviews belong to their authors and/or the correspondent media from which they have been extracted. If you'd like to help us to add more reviews to your favorite movies, just send us a message.