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Black Legion (1937) More at IMDbPro »

• The movie was inspired by a real case involving the Black Legion in Michigan, where a WPA worker was killed.
  
  
• Frank Nelson's movie debut.
  
  
• Warners would produce a similar-themed film, Storm Warning (1951) in 1951 about a for-profit hate group similar to the Black Legion.
  
  
• The location used for the machine shop is actually the real Warner Brothers machine shop, which still exists and can be seen today on tours.
  
  
• Director Michael Curtiz was brought in to shoot some additional footage after the production wrapped. It is known that he shot at least the scene with the Black Legion executives.
  
  
• Banned in Austria, Switzerland, Cyprus, Finland, Trinidad and France. The ban in France was lifted after a year, and it opened to extremely negative reviews. Australian and British release versions were heavily censored.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• The film that Betty and Ed go to see early in the film, 'All For Love' is completely made-up, as are all the posters for the other films outside the theater. Titles that are visible include 'Jail-Break,' 'Bengal Tiger,' 'Public Enemy's Wife' and 'Big Noise.'
  
  

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