Black Legion (1937)

Bogart plays a factory worker who joins a secret organization (modeled on the Ku Klux Klan) when a "foreigner" gets the job he wanted. Caught up in their violence, he kills his best friend but eventually confesses and exposes the group.

The Klan actually sued Warner Bros. for infringement of their patented symbols.

"Cinema at its best ... quasi documentary" The New York Times.

"A sermon on American ideals." New York Herald-Tribune.

"An intelligent and exciting, if rather earnest film." Graham Greene.

With Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Ann Sheridan.

Dir. by Archie Mayo. Written by Abem Finkel and William Wister Haines, from a story by Robert Lord. Photogr. by George Barnes. Music by Bernhard Kaun. Warner Bros. 83 min.