Bad Day at Black Rock [Import]
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 21 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: December 25, 2012
- Originally Released: 1955
- Label: Imports
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Spencer Tracy & Robert Ryan | |
Performer: | Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Anne Francis, Walter Brennan, Dean Jagger, John Ericson & Russell Collins | |
Directed by | John Sturges | |
Edited by | Newell P. Kimlin | |
Screenwriting by | Millard Kaufman & Don McGuire | |
Composition by | André Previn | |
Art Direction by | Malcolm Brown & Cedric Gibbons | |
Produced by | Dore Schary | |
Director of Photography: | William C. Mellor |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1955 -
Best Actor: Spencer Tracy
Entertainment Reviews:
I think it's really great the way it addresses the way small communities and isolated communities close in on themselves to protect ugliness.
At the Movies (Australia)
Rating: 4.5/5 --
A tense, marvelous film-noir Western, if there is such a thing, and if not then this movie created the genre.
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The Film Yap
Rating: 4/5 --
John Sturges's macho B-picture is more brawn than brains...but what brawn!
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Time Out
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.
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Time Out
Rating: 3.5/5 --
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.
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New York Times
Famous suspense film, with a history lesson and Civil Rights message.
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Classic Film and Television
Rating: B- --
Serves as a moralizing Hollywood lecture on racial prejudice against Japanese-Americans during World War II.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
John Sturges's classic, both a tale of grace under pressure and an allegory of McCarthyism, stars Spencer Tracy as John McReedy, a World War II veteran with a crippled arm. His arrival in the tiny southwestern whistle-stop of Black Rock in 1945 evokes fear and suspicion in its few inhabitants; no stranger has appeared in town for four years. When he tries to check into the hotel, he's denied a room. When McReedy insists on going up to one of the rooms, Hector (Lee Marvin), a menacing cowpoke, follows him and tries to bait him into fighting but fails. McReedy's request for information about Komoko, the Japanese farmer he's seeking, is met with silence by the frightened sheriff (Dean Jagger). Town boss Reno Smith (Robert Ryan), who's already having McReedy investigated, feigns hospitality while informing McReedy that Komoko left town long ago. McReedy rents a Jeep and rides out to Komoko's abandoned farm only to find a grave. Since he was surveilled by Coley (Ernest Borgnine), one of Smith's goons, McReedy must deal with the worst when he gets back to Black Rock. One of the best films of the 1950s, the tense, atmospheric story, which is exceptionally well acted by Tracy and an all-star cast of supporting players, garnered an Academy Award nomination for director Sturges.
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