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Director:
Archie Mayo
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Writers:
Robert Lord (story)
Abem Finkel (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
30 January 1937 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Crime more
Plot:
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. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
User Comments:
A good film, strong for Bogart more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Humphrey Bogart ... Frank Taylor
Dick Foran ... Ed Jackson
Erin O'Brien-Moore ... Ruth Taylor

Ann Sheridan ... Betty Grogan
Helen Flint ... Pearl Davis (Credits) / Pearl Danvers
Joe Sawyer ... Cliff Moore (Credits) / Cliff Summers (as Joseph Sawyer)
Clifford Soubier ... Mike Grogan
Alonzo Price ... Alf Hargrave
Paul Harvey ... Billings
Dickie Jones ... Buddy Taylor
Samuel S. Hinds ... Judge (as Samuel Hinds)
Addison Richards ... Prosecuting Attorney
Eddie Acuff ... Metcalf
Dorothy Vaughan ... Mrs. Grogan
John Litel ... Tommy Smith
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Additional Details

Runtime:
83 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Norway:16 (1937) | Finland:(Banned) (1937) | USA:Approved (PCA #2507)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
When Frank lights a cigarette outside the pharmacy after his wife and child leave, an advertisement for Pabst Beer is visible behind him, only the P and the T have clearly been covered with white-out. more
Goofs:
Continuity: A newspaper clipping names Clifford Soubier's character as Michael F. Grogan. However the letter earlier refers to him as Michael P. Grogan. more
Quotes:
Cliff Moore: Read!
Frank Taylor: [reading the Black Legion oath] In the name of God and the Devil, one to reward and the other to punish, and by the powers of light and darkness, good and evil, here under the black arch of Heaven's avenging symbol, I pledge and consecrate my heart, my brain, my body, and my limbs and swear by all the powers of Heaven and Hell to devote my life to the obedience of my superiors and that no danger or peril shall deter me from executin' dere orders...
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Warner at War (2008) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
The Lady in Red more

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5 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
A good film, strong for Bogart, 11 July 2000
Author: elheffe from Long Beach, CA

The Black Legion is not a fictitious name dreamed up by the screen writer of this film. It does not represent the Ku Klux Klan, but an different hate group, The Black Legion, that was very strong in the 30's in Midwest America. Their grip reached all the way up to chiefs of police and fire, district attorneys, and high profile names in big business. Henry Ford was a staunch, though private, supporter of the Black Legion. Warner saw a parallel between the Black Legion and the rise of the Third Reich. For more information about the Black Legion, see the movie

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