Review of Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) by Nate W — 31 Aug 2012
Spencer Tracy visits a little desert town with a big secret in John Sturges' "Bad Day at Black Rock", and encounters all sorts of hostile townsfolk who intend to keep him from discovering it.
It's much to screenwriter Millard Kaufman's credit that the secret in question is clearly implied for most of the film, but that our intrigue seldom waivers. Spencer Tracy makes an appealing protagonist because he doesn't play a dogged sleuth, but a war-vet on a personal mission of closure who happens to run afoul small town corruption and politics.
The film touches on themes of racial intolerance and prejudice, perhaps pointing an unfair finger at certain regions of the continent as being more culpable than others.
This review of Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) was written by Nate W on 31 Aug 2012.
Bad Day at Black Rock has generally received very positive reviews.
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