Black Legion
Black Legion is a 1937 American crime drama film, directed by Archie Mayo, with a script by Abem Finkel and William Wister Haines based on an original story by producer Robert Lord. 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.
Plot
Frank Taylor works in a Midwestern factory and expects to receive a job promotion that has become available. When he is passed over in favor of hard-working Polish immigrant Joe Dombrowski, Taylor joins the Black Legion, a secret organization that drives away immigrants and racial minorities through violent means. Dressed in black robes, Taylor and the Black Legion go on a torchlight raid, driving Dombrowski and his family from their home.
Awards
More details
author | Abem Finkel |
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award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
director | Archie Mayo Michael Curtiz |
editor | Owen Marks |
genre | crime drama western |
keywords | arrest connect drink drive job promotion married midwestern midwestern united states recruit secret life secret organization |
musicBy | Bernhard Kaun |
nomination | Academy Award for Best Story |
producer | Robert Lord |
productionCompany | Warner Bros. |
publisher | Warner Bros. |
theme | melodrama |