Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)

Directed by John Sturges

Sometimes you can travel a few hundred miles and find yourself in what seems like another world. That happened to me once when I decided to drive through Schuylkill County, in Pennsylvania, moving from one old boom town to another, now long after the booms had busted. I was stunned. I had never seen the kind of poverty I saw there: streets denuded of…