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Dominican Rep. Bad Day at Black Rock
- Original title
- Bad Day at Black Rock
- Year
- 1955
- Running time
- 81 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Spencer Tracy
Robert Ryan
Lee Marvin
Anne Francis
Dean Jagger
Ernest Borgnine
Walter Brennan
John Ericson
Walter Sande- See all credits
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Mystery | Racism. 1940s
- Synopsis
- 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.
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- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1955: 3 Nominations for Oscar: Best Director, Actor (Spencer Tracy), Screenplay1955: BAFTA Awards: Nominated for Best Film1955: Directors Guild of America (DGA): Nominated for Best Director1955: Writers Guild of America (WGA): Nominated for Best Drama Screenplay1955: Cannes: Best Actor (Spencer Tracy)1955: National Board of Review: Top 10 Best Films
- Critics' reviews
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"An action film for people who don't like action films."
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"Considerable excitement is whipped up in this suspense drama, and fans who go for tight action will find it entirely satisfactory"
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"A nerve-shredding masterpiece."
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