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Musta legioona

Original title: Black Legion
  • 19371937
  • (Banned)(Banned)
  • 1h 23m
IMDb RATING
6.9/10
3.3K
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POPULARITY
27,828
1,670
Humphrey Bogart in Musta legioona (1937)
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Play trailer1:42
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CrimeDramaFilm-Noir

A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.A hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he's seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

IMDb RATING
6.9/10
3.3K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
27,828
1,670
  • Directors
    • Archie Mayo
    • Michael Curtiz(uncredited)
  • Writers
    • Abem Finkel(screen play)
    • William Wister Haines(screen play)
    • Robert Lord(story)
  • Stars
    • Humphrey Bogart
    • Ann Sheridan
    • Dick Foran
Top credits
  • Directors
    • Archie Mayo
    • Michael Curtiz(uncredited)
  • Writers
    • Abem Finkel(screen play)
    • William Wister Haines(screen play)
    • Robert Lord(story)
  • Stars
    • Humphrey Bogart
    • Ann Sheridan
    • Dick Foran
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 54User reviews
    • 29Critic reviews
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    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination total

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    Trailer 1:42
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    Humphrey Bogart, Dennis Moore, and Lee Phelps in Musta legioona (1937)
    Humphrey Bogart, Helen Flint, and Joe Sawyer in Musta legioona (1937)
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    Humphrey Bogart in Musta legioona (1937)
    Eddie Acuff, Henry Brandon, Dick Foran, Charles Halton, and Joe Sawyer in Musta legioona (1937)

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    Humphrey Bogart
    Humphrey Bogart
    • Frank Taylor
    Ann Sheridan
    Ann Sheridan
    • Betty Grogan
    Dick Foran
    Dick Foran
    • Ed Jackson
    Erin O'Brien-Moore
    Erin O'Brien-Moore
    • Ruth Taylor
    Helen Flint
    Helen Flint
    • Pearl Danvers
    Joe Sawyer
    Joe Sawyer
    • Cliff Moore
    • (as Joseph Sawyer)
    Clifford Soubier
    • Mike Grogan
    Alonzo Price
    Alonzo Price
    • Alf Hargrave
    Paul Harvey
    Paul Harvey
    • Billings
    Dickie Jones
    Dickie Jones
    • Buddy Taylor
    Samuel S. Hinds
    Samuel S. Hinds
    • Judge
    • (as Samuel Hinds)
    Addison Richards
    Addison Richards
    • Prosecuting Attorney
    Eddie Acuff
    Eddie Acuff
    • Metcalf
    Dorothy Vaughan
    Dorothy Vaughan
    • Mrs. Grogan
    John Litel
    John Litel
    • Tommy Smith
    Henry Brandon
    Henry Brandon
    • Joe Dombrowski
    Charles Halton
    Charles Halton
    • Osgood
    Pat C. Flick
    • Nick Strumpas
    • Directors
      • Archie Mayo
      • Michael Curtiz(uncredited)
    • Writers
      • Abem Finkel(screen play)
      • William Wister Haines(screen play)
      • Robert Lord(story)
    • All cast & crew
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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      The film was inspired by a real case involving a racist/nativist organization called The Black Legion in Michigan, in which a WPA worker was murdered.
    • Goofs
      The movie end credits list the name of the character played by Helen Flint as "Pearl Davis" but throughout the movie - particularly during her courtroom testimony - her character is referred to as "Pearl Danvers."
    • 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?

      Frank Taylor: Some nice ice cold oatmeal smothered wid lard.

      [Frank taps Ed on the stomach and Ed winces]

    • Crazy credits
      The names of all characters -- the characters themselves-- the story-- all incidents and institutions portrayed in this production are fictitious-- and no identification with actual persons, living or deceased, is intended or should be inferred.
    • Connections
      Featured in Hollywood and the Stars: The Angry Screen (1964)
    • Soundtracks
      The Lady in Red
      (1935) (uncredited)

      Music by Allie Wrubel

      Whistled in part by Humphrey Bogart

    User reviews54

    Review
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    Featured review
    6/10
    Based on rarely discussed history
    Most of the previous reviews get it right about Black Legion; it's not Bogart's best by a long shot. But here's the catch: it's not a "thinly veiled" swipe at the KKK. It's about the actual, real-life Black Legion. I know; you've never heard of it. Neither did I, until I was cleaning out the stack of magazines in our Indiana farmhouse. Let's hear it for hoarding, because there it was, as large as one of those Life Magazines - a profile on ...the Black Legion.

    I was horrified, but it did exist:

    "The Black Legion was a secret vigilante terrorist group and a white supremacist organization in the Midwestern United States that splintered from the Ku Klux Klan and operated during the Great Depression of the 1930s. According to historian Rick Perlstein, the FBI estimated its membership "at 135,000, including a large number of public officials, possibly including Detroit's police chief." In 1936 the group was suspected of assassinating as many as 50 people according to the Associated Press.[1]

    The white paramilitary group was founded in the 1920s by William Shepard in east central Ohio in the Appalachian region, as a security force named the Black Guard in order to protect Ku Klux Klan officers.[2][3] The Legion became active in chapters throughout Ohio. One of its self-described leaders, Virgil "Bert" Effinger, lived and worked in Lima, Ohio."

    So why is there so little in our history books about it? It was a relatively short lived hate group, but it showed up in other places: "Hollywood, radio and the press responded to the lurid nature of the Legion with works that referred to it. Legion of Terror (1936) starred Ward Bond and Bruce Cabot, and was based on this group. Black Legion (1937), a feature film, starred Humphrey Bogart. True Detective Mysteries, a radio show based on the magazine of the same title, broadcast an episode on April 1, 1937 that referred directly to the Black Legion and Poole's murder. The radio show The Shadow, with Orson Welles in the title role, broadcast an episode on March 20, 1938, entitled "The White Legion"; it was based loosely on the Black Legion. Malcolm X and Alex Haley collaborated on the leader's The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965); he noted the Legion as being active in Lansing, Michigan where his family lived. Malcolm X was six when his father died in 1931; he believed the father was killed by the Black Legion. The TV series History's Mysteries presented an episode about the group entitled "Terror in the Heartland: The Black Legion" (1998).

    I realize I haven't written much about the movie; others have done that well. But we need to accept that this... is based on real life.
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    • amy-lesemann
    • Jun 28, 2017

    Details

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    • Release date
      • January 30, 1937 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Black Legion
    • Filming locations
      • Providencia Ranch, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Warner Bros.
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    • Budget
      • $235,000 (estimated)
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 23 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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