Black Legion (1937)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 83 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Archie Mayo
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran and Erin O'Brien-Moore
IMDb score:
7,0 (4.210)
Releasedate: 30 January 1937
Black Legion plot
"They Murdered at Midnight!"
Frank (Humphrey Bogart) is a factory worker who has his dreams. Seeing a higher job pass him by in favor of a Pole, he decides to attend a meeting of the pro-American Black Legion movement and join. This Klan is going to drive out the foreigners in white coats and hoods. Once plugged in, you won't come out alive.
Actors and actresses
Frank Taylor
Ed Jackson
Ruth Taylor
Betty Grogan
Pearl Danvers
Cliff Summers
Michael F. Grogan
Alf Hargrave
Billings
Buddy Taylor
Reviews & comments
Movsin
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- 8286 messages
- 8442 votes
Great film that introduces concepts such as intolerance and violence, but in accordance with time-honored American tradition, allows justice and just retaliation to prevail, something that the general public certainly craved.
Actually liked Bogie better here than in many of his later films.
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klara
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- 814 messages
- 20367 votes
A beautiful role by a very young Bogart who feels wronged and disillusioned
decides to join a movement that appeals to him unaware of the
far-reaching Ku Klux Klan practices. Perhaps the first film in which this is discussed and also
shockingly racist here at times.
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MisterPink
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- 1382 messages
- 6971 votes
Yes, shockingly racist at times. They did not yet have a Poland reporting point in the States at the time. People arranged that themselves or through the Klan. By the way, I didn't come here for Bogart but for his co-star Joe Dombrowski. Jan van Eyck in his Flemish. The name Dombrowski is derived from Dąbrowski. (A dąb is an oak in Polish). A common name, but let me not digress. So I came for Joe Dombrowski who unfortunately soon disappears from the scene. And then the big Bogie show begins. I must say that I like the young Bogart better than his later work. I thought the arrest was downright clumsy and cringe-inducingly corny. And I will never become a fan of lawsuits in a film, which makes me doubt whether a pass or fail... Thanks to Egon Brecher as the immigrant with the traditional Polish mustache and broken English (what do you mean, racist caricature), Bogie and the film get still 3 stars.
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