Black Legion

This hard-hitting, socially conscious drama, the sort of story that Warner Bros. made their hallmark in the 1930s, stars Humphrey Bogart and Erin O’Brien Moore. Bogart plays Frank Taylor, a Detroit factory worker who becomes angry when he loses out on a promotion to a Polish co-worker. He is then recruited by the Black Legion, a secretive hate group similar to the Ku Klux Klan, who believe in “America for Americans”. As the Legion demands more and more of Frank’s time and energy, the rest of his life begins to unravel, and he is set on a path to tragedy. Given that racially motivated violence was still not uncommon in parts of the USA in the mid-1930s, BLACK LEGION won critical acclaim for its brave attack on hate groups, and remains socially relevant to this day.