Bad Day at Black Rock

John Sturges's macho B-picture is more brawn than brains...but what brawn!

An action film for people who don't like action films.

Considerable excitement is whipped up in this suspense drama, and fans who go for tight action will find it entirely satisfactory.

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.

Superb, if it weren't, as we said, for the too-obvious liberal teachings that interrupt the terrific ation.

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.

I think it's really great the way it addresses the way small communities and isolated communities close in on themselves to protect ugliness.

Famous suspense film, with a history lesson and Civil Rights message.

Serves as a moralizing Hollywood lecture on racial prejudice against Japanese-Americans during World War II.

Fabulous 1955 Spencer Tracy story of prejudice.

a portrait of American distrust leading into the potent paranoia of the Cold War