The Black Legion Movie Review 1937

Social drama isn't as dated as we'd like to think. Auto worker Frank Taylor (Bogart) is angry at being passed over for an expected promotion that goes to a Polish immigrant. So he's easy pickings for a Klan-like secret society that practices hatred and Frank gets in deep, eventually losing his family. His best pal, Ed (Foran), tries to get Frank out but only tragedy follows. Very grim and one of Bogart's early unsympathetic starring roles.

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Available on VHS
Running time 83 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Crime Drama, Order in the Court

Screenplay

Abem Finkel, William Wister Haines

Cast

Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Helen Flint, Ann Sheridan, Henry (Kleinbach) Brandon, Robert Barrat, Joseph (Joe) Sawyer, Addison Richards, Samuel S. Hinds, John Litel, Eddie Acuff

Cinematography

George Barnes

Director

Archie Mayo

Music

Bernhard Kaun

Producer

Robert Lord, Warner Bros.