Bad Day at Black Rock

(1955)

★ 7.3 IMDb · 436 votes

Genres: Western, Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Year: 1955

Runtime: 81 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: John Sturges

Cast: Спенсер Трейси, Robert Ryan, Walter Brennan, Ли Марвин, Dean Jagger, Anne Francis, John Ericson, Эрнест Боргнайн, Russell Collins, Walter Sande

Plot

One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.

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 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.