Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

Cast

Ernest Borgnine
as Coley Trimble
Lee Marvin
as Hector David
Spencer Tracy
as John J. Macreedy
Anne Francis
as Liz Wirth

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Genres & Description

Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller Western

7.8 / 10

From the time John J. Macreedy steps off the train in Black Rock, he feels a chill from the local residents. The town is only a speck on the map and few if any strangers ever come to the place. Macreedy himself is tight-lipped about the purpose of his trip and he finds that the hotel refuses him a room, the local garage refuses to rent him a car and the sheriff is a useless drunkard. It's apparent that the locals have something to hide but when he finally tells them that he is there to speak to a Japanese-American farmer named Kamoko, he touches a nerve so sensitive that he will spend the next 24 hours fighting for his life.

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Michael Stern

I'm fond of this film, and the recent Warner Archive blu-ray really does it justice. Ernest Borgnine is for me particularly memorable playing one of the local thugs. It's a part he could do in his sleep but that doesn't make it any less menacing. - @Tuesday, July 31, 2018 7:36 PM

johnny llooddte

Borgnine beat Tracey for an Oscar in Marty.. Filmed right after this - @Wednesday, March 14, 2018 8:16 AM

number94

Agree with everything you said. It also a film about self-overcoming. Fantastic dialogue without which the Coen brothers would not be the Coen brothers, and not just in No Country For Old Men. - @Thursday, July 20, 2017 9:18 PM

Private i

I haven't seen the film--had never heard of it till today, actually--but from what I have learned about it and clips I have seen from it today, it seems to be a movie about racism that never shows the face of the "hated race." That in itself is interesting, I think. - @Sunday, May 7, 2017 9:54 AM

paacer

I agree with Dan . Wonderful acting, cinematography, tension and atmosphere throughout the film . - @Monday, May 1, 2017 6:42 AM

FC Schaeffer

One of the most perfectly cast movies of all time. - @Friday, January 27, 2017 4:47 AM

lostallmymirth

This has to be the most inane movies of all time!A hamlet of (14) losers.... (only (7) of which seem to be employed)... have no way of getting out despite the fact that the only railroad station master receives stops only once every 4 years, while the nearby (20) room hotel has no vacancies, and the café offers only chili, while the gas station, the jail, veterinary/mortician and a barber shop seem to be thriving. What could be more realistic??? - @Saturday, January 7, 2017 12:00 AM

R Paz

Was filmed in Lone Pine California and the nearby Alabama Hills. - @Saturday, March 19, 2016 2:22 AM

Aura Hyel

A great film. - @Wednesday, December 17, 2014 9:50 PM

Bstormy Weathers

i'd watch it just for the added wonder of stereophonic sound. - @Thursday, September 25, 2014 10:51 AM

fardaypu

thanks for review, i must go and watch it now. - @Thursday, February 13, 2014 12:58 PM

BurrelloSubmarine

This is such a great film. The cinematography and acting are wonderful. I remember being very surprised by how intelligent and satisfying this was. - @Thursday, February 13, 2014 3:03 AM