Black Legion (film)

Infobox Film
name = Black Legion


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caption = Theatrical poster to "Black Legion" (1937)
director = Archie Mayo
producer = Robert Lord
Hal B. Wallis
(executive producer)
writer = Robert Lord (story)
Abem Finkel
William Wister Haines (screenplay)
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starring = Humphrey Bogart
Erin O'Brien-Moore
Dick Foran
Ann Sheridan
music =
cinematography = George Barnes
editing = Owen Marks
distributor = Warner Bros.
released = January 30, 1937
runtime = 83 minutes
country = United States
language = English
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imdb_id = 0027367

"Black Legion" is a 1937 movie, starring Humphrey Bogart and Erin O'Brien-Moore in a fictionalized story about the real-life Black Legion of the 1930s.

Film summary

Bogart plays Frank Taylor, a Detroit factory worker who joins the "pro-American" (i.e. anti-immigrants and "foreigners") Legion when he is passed over for promotion by a foreign-born friend. Taylor feels pressured by the Legion, by his family's growing needs, and by his increasingly marginal status at his job, to turn against his new boss. When Taylor is ultimately (but regretfully) fired during a cutback, the Legion insists he get revenge, with their help – in return for his silence about them.

The movie, while still presenting Bogart in a negative role, allowed him a sympathetic one, and his performance drew praise, as did the movie itself for its dramatization of a social phenomenon. "Black Legion" still holds up well, years after its first release.who

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