Additional information for Bad Day at Black Rock, which has a domestic theatrical release set for January 7, 1955. The film is being distributed by MGM and has not yet been rated. Bad Day at Black Rock has a total running time of 81 minutes.
12
West Germany
15
Sweden
PG
UK
Approved
USA
PG
Australia
K-12
Finland
16
Norway
81min
Conspiración de silencio
Mexico
Conspiración de silencio
Spain
Stadt in Angst
Austria
Stadt in Angst
West Germany
Un homme est passé
Belgium
Un homme est passé
France
A Conspiração do Silêncio
Portugal
Ashimi mera ston aspro vraho
Greece
Bad Day at Hondo
USA
Conspiração do Silêncio
Brazil
Coup dur à Black Rock
France
Czarny dzien w Black Rock
Poland
Een kwade dag voor Black Rock
Belgium
En man steg av tåget
Sweden
En mand steg af toget
Denmark
Er kwam een man
Belgium
Giorno maledetto
Italy
Mies astui junasta
Finland
Rossz nap Black Rocknál
Hungary
Zafer madalyasi
Turkey
January 07, 1955
USA
February 01, 1955
USA
April 26, 1955
France
May 15, 1955
Japan
June 22, 1955
France
August 18, 1955
Norway
September 05, 1955
Sweden
September 23, 1955
France
September 30, 1955
Belgium
October 18, 1955
West Germany
December 02, 1955
Austria
February 03, 1956
Finland
March , 1956
Turkey
April 03, 1956
Portugal
May 12, 1958
Denmark
December 22, 1958
Spain
November 23, 1963
Denmark
May 24, 1965
Denmark
June 04, 1971
West Germany
July 05, 1986
East Germany
September 10, 2003
France
November 28, 2007
France
Suddenly you realize murder is at your elbow! - and there's no way out!
M-G-M's SUSPENSE STORY OF THE YEAR! (original print ad - mostly caps)
Just the way it happened!
The time is 1945, just after the end of World War II. The great railroad train Streamliner stops at the town of Black Rock Arizona. The train discharges a single passenger with only one arm named John J. Macreedy.The conductor comments that this is the first time in four years that the train has stopped there. Macreedy replies that he is only staying for one day, and the conductor comments that "in a place like this a day can be a lifetime." The train departs. Macreedy is confronted by the stationmaster who complains that he had not been informed that the Streamliner was stopping, to which Macreedy replies "Maybe they didn't think it was important." Macreedy asks the stationmaster if he can get a cab to Adobe Flat. The stationmaster replies "no cab." Macreedy then asks if the hotel is open, and the stationmaster nods. Macreedy walks into town.
When the townsfolk learn that Macreedy wants to visit nearby Adobe Flat, they react with extreme suspicion and hostility. Pete Wirth, the hotel keeper, tries using a bogus excuse about war restrictions to deny renting a room even though it is obvious the hotel has vacancies. After persistence, Macreedy rents a room, only to be harassed by a cowboy named Hector for no apparent reason. Macreedy's attempts to rent a car create further hostility, prompting another local, Reno Smith, to have a private detective he knows in Los Angeles check out Macreedy's background. Macreedy then visits the sheriff's office only to find that the sheriff, Tim Horn, is an ineffectual drunken sot. Macreedy mentions that he is trying to locate a farmer named Kumoko at Adobe Flat and Horn becomes as hostile as the rest of town. Smith then accosts Macreedy feigning friendliness. Macreedy asks about Kumoko, and Smith tells him that Kumoko was sent to an internment camp after the start of the war. Pete's sister Liz drives up in her jeep and rents it to Macreedy, who drives off to Adobe Flat. Despite Liz's assurance that Macreedy will find nothing and Horn's feeble attempts to assert his authority, Smith, after hearing from the private eye that there are no records on Macreedy, orders another local, Coley Trimble, to get rid of Macreedy, despite protests from Pete and the town doctor, Doc Velie. At Adobe Flat, Macreedy finds only a burned out house, a deep well and wildflowers growing in the dirt. Returning to town, Trimble rams Macreedy off the road, then harasses him for being a "road hog." Macreedy decides to leave but is unable to get transportation to the next town and finds that the train will not come until the next morning. After enduring comments of racial bigotry relating to Kumoko, Macreedy is convinced that Smith is trying to kill him and attempts to telephone the police, but Pete will not help him. The doc offers Macreedy his hearse for escape, but it has been tampered with and will not start. After trying to telegraph the police, Macreedy visits the café, where Coley goads him with more bigoted slurs. Macreedy downs Coley with judo, then accuses Smith of murdering Kumoko; he is convinced that the wildflowers hide something buried at Adobe Flat. Macreedy reveals that Kumoko's son Joe died as a result of saving his life in Italy during the war, earning a medal that Macreedy is bringing to his father. Doc and Pete then confess that Kumoko leased Adobe Flat from Smith under false pretenses of available water. Kumoko, despite being cheated, dug the deep well, enraging Smith. Smith is further angered after being turned down by the Marines and after getting drunk, decides to "scare the Jap" along with Coley, Pete, Hector and Sam, the café owner. The incident gets out of hand and Kumoko is killed. Pete then calls Liz and asks her help in getting Macreedy out of town. Liz drives him out of town into the hands of Smith. Smith shoots Liz to silence her, then turns the rifle on Macreedy. Macreedy creates a Molotov cocktail with jeep gas, his necktie and a glass bottle. He hurls the bottle at Smith, catching him on fire. Returning to town with Smith, Macreedy finds the other four witnesses locked up in a cell. The next morning, the police escort the prisoners away as the Streamliner pulls in. Macreedy, after hearing pleas from Doc, gives him the medal awarded to Kumoko's son Joe. The conductor comments that the excitement must be the reason that the train stopped here for the first time in four years. Macreedy comments "second," then boards the train.
John Sturges
Director(s)
Millard Kaufman
Don McGuire
Howard Breslin
Writer(s)
Herman Hoffman
associate producer
Dore Schary
producer
Producer(s)
André Previn
Composer(s)
John J. Macreedy
Spencer Tracy
Reno Smith
Robert Ryan
Liz Wirth
Anne Francis
Tim Horn
Dean Jagger
Doc Velie
Walter Brennan
Pete Wirth
John Ericson
Coley Trimble
Ernest Borgnine
Hector David
Lee Marvin
Mr. Hastings
Russell Collins
Sam
Walter Sande
Cafe Lounger (unconfirmed)
Walter Beaver
Cafe Lounger (unconfirmed)
Billy Dix
Cafe Lounger (unconfirmed)
Mickey Little
Cafe Lounger (unconfirmed)
K.L. Smith
Second Train Conductor (uncredited)
Robert Griffin
First Train Conductor (uncredited)
Harry Harvey
One of Two Porters (uncredited)
Bobby Johnson
Tall - White-haired Cafe Lounger (uncredited)
Francis McDonald
A one handed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary.
Director(s)
Don McGuire
Howard Breslin
Writer(s)
associate producer
Dore Schary
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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