---
title: 'Black Legion (1937)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Michael Curtiz'
released: '1937-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 83
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/black-legion-1937'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027367/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Black Legion (1937)

1937 · 83 min · Drama · United States


## Synopsis

Black Legion is a 1937 American crime drama film, directed by Archie Mayo, with a script by Abem Finkel and William Wister Haines based on an original story by producer Robert Lord. The film stars Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore and Ann Sheridan. It is a fictionalized treatment of the historic Black Legion of the 1930s in Michigan, a white terrorist group. A third of its members lived in Detroit, which had also been a center of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Michael Curtiz](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-curtiz), [Archie Mayo](https://cinepixo.com/people/archie-mayo)
- **Screenplay:** [Abem Finkel](https://cinepixo.com/people/abem-finkel)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Bernhard Kaun](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernhard-kaun)
- **Producer:** [Robert Lord](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-lord)
- **Director of Photography:** [George Barnes](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-barnes)
- **Editor:** [Owen Marks](https://cinepixo.com/people/owen-marks)

## Cast

- [Ann Sheridan](https://cinepixo.com/people/ann-sheridan)
- [Humphrey Bogart](https://cinepixo.com/people/humphrey-bogart)
- [Samuel S. Hinds](https://cinepixo.com/people/samuel-s-hinds)
- [Joe Sawyer](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-sawyer)
- [Dick Foran](https://cinepixo.com/people/dick-foran)
- [Addison Richards](https://cinepixo.com/people/addison-richards)
- [Egon Brecher](https://cinepixo.com/people/egon-brecher)
- [Erin O'Brien-Moore](https://cinepixo.com/people/erin-o-brien-moore)
- [Henry Brandon](https://cinepixo.com/people/henry-brandon)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/black-legion-1937
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