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When the job goes to a Polish-born worker instead, Frank is enraged and decides to join a local organization that persecutes immigrants. Known as the Black Legion, the clandestine hate group...
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- Humphrey Bogart
- Archie Mayo
- Crime, Drama
Oscar-winner and screen legend Humphrey Bogart ("Casablanca," "The African Queen") stars as a disgruntled factory worker who is lured into joining the...
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
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- 16
- Archie Mayo
- 83 min
Release Date. 01/30/1937. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor that finally convinced American isolationists to join World War II, Hollywood studios concealed their criticism of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party in stories that exposed the danger of fascistic ideologies on the homefront.
The film stars Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore and Ann Sheridan. It is a fictionalized treatment of the historic Black Legion of the 1930s in Michigan, a white vigilante group. A third of its members lived in Detroit, which had also been a center of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.
The Warner Bros. film, directed by Archie Mayo and an uncredited Michael Curtiz, is a gripping depiction of the organization's thuggery and violence and their devastating social and personal...
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Black Legion. DRAMA. Oscar-winner and screen legend Humphrey Bogart ("Casablanca," "The African Queen") stars as a disgruntled factory worker who is lured into joining the Ku Klux Klan. Powerful film received an Oscar-nomination for Original Story.