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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.
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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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. Helen Flint. Pearl Davis [Danvers] Photos & Videos. View All.
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.
1937. Directed by Archie Mayo. They Murdered at Midnight! 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. Remove Ads. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
