This drama yields a grim social message about racial prejudice. Spencer Tracy is John J. MacReedy, a one-armed stranger who comes to the tiny town of Black Rock one hot summer day in 1945. He looks for both a hotel room and a local Japanese farmer named Komoko, but...
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.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
July 29, 2012
Serves as a moralizing Hollywood lecture on racial prejudice against Japanese-Americans during World War II.
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.
