Bad Day at Black Rock

1955 • 81 minutes

About this movie

Academy Award winner Spencer Tracy stars as John Macreedy, a World WarII veteran trying to find the father of the man who saved his life in this classic, taut drama about the evils of racial bigotry. Macreedy arrives one hot afternoon in 1945 aboard the first train to stop in Black Rock in three years. His search for a Japanese American farmer--to whose son he owes his life--leads to this small Western town's closely guarded secret ... a racially motivated murder ... and to the local citizens who will kill again to keep their crime hidden.

Ratings and reviews

Watch this and see what a real "Hate Crime" is! 442nd was the highest decorated, all Japanese American Combat Unit in WW2, and this "one armed" combat veteran takes on a whole town of evil racists!

Idk why I like it. Maybe the remote desert town. Definitely the old cars...that Woody tho! Just a great movie I can watch over and over.

One of the movies I go back to, probably seen 20 times. Spencer Tracy is great in this movie plus there is a great supporting cast or unsupporting haha.