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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Robert Lord (story)
Abem Finkel (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
30 January 1937 (USA) 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:
Over 60 years old but, sadly, still topical more (17 total)
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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83 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Certification:
Norway:16 (1937) | Finland:(Banned) (1937) | USA:Approved (PCA #2507)
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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
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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:
Frank Taylor:
How yuh doin', Ed?
Ed Jackson:
Oh, terrible! I feel like a drill was driving right through the top of my head.
Frank Taylor:
It might be a good idea to let out some of dat beer you slopped up last night.
Ed Jackson:
Aw, quit riding me, will yuh?
Frank Taylor:
Oh, I ain't even started on you yet. C'mon, let's eat.
Ed Jackson:
No, Frank, I couldn't.
Frank Taylor:
Oh, come on. Do you good. You gotta eat.
[He snaps his finger]
Frank Taylor:
I got just the thing to straighten you out.
Ed Jackson:
Yeah? What is it?
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Movie Connections:
Featured in Warner at War (2008) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
Fair and Warmer more
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Frank (Humphrey Bogart), a factory worker, is passed over on a promotion that goes to a Polish man. In anger, he joins the Black Legion (basically the Ku Klux Klan) to punish all foreigners for taking jobs from "true Americans". The story has been done since, but this one is well-made, quick (82 min.), well-acted (Bogart is great and looks so young!) and still powerful. The film isn't perfect (I could have lived without the closing sermon) but still worth seeing. It's also real sad to realize that a film over 60 years old about racism is still relevant.