Black Legion

Humphrey Bogart is a Detroit factory worker who joins a branch of the Klu Klux Klan after being passed over for promotion by a foreign friend. A startling performance by Bogart and a fascinating protrayal of 1930s racism., A powerful social drama with Humphrey Bogart as a factory worker drawn into the evil activities of the Klu Klux Klan when a co-worker outstrips him in the promotion stakes., A powerful social drama with Humphrey Bogart as a factory worker drawn into the evil activities of the Klu Klux Klan when a co-worker gets promoted., A machinist becomes a murderer for a hooded society. A strong, effective parable against the Ku Klux Klan., Though this brutal, gripping social drama is based on actual headlines from the 1930s, the story is still disturbingly relevant as it follows the descent of an embittered autoworker who gets involved with a deadly racist organization after a Polish immigrant receives the promotion he thought he deserved.