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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.
Black Legion: Directed by Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz. With Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ann Sheridan. A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
- (3.9K)
- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz
- 1937-01-30
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
Film Details. Awards. Articles & Reviews. Trivia. Notes. Brief Synopsis. A disgruntled factory worker is lured into joining a secret society out to terrorize foreigners. Cast & Crew. Read More. Archie L. Mayo. Director. Humphrey Bogart. Frank Taylor. Dick Foran. Editor Jackson. Erin O'brien-moore. Ruth Taylor. Ann Sheridan. Betty Grogan.
- Archie L. Mayo, Jack Sullivan
- Humphrey Bogart
Summaries. A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence. Frank Taylor joins the "pro-American" Black Legion when he loses his chance at foremanship to a foreign-born man.
Like Fritz Lang’s Fury a year earlier, Black Legion is a dark film depicting society as threatening and brutal, laying the foundation for evil to become more personalized in the noir to come. By Michael Bayer.
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