The read
Critics rate it 31 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 76% of the 92 1930s crime movies in this catalog. It runs a compact 1h 23m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 31 points higher than audiences do.
60 audience votes
Key crew
- Archie MayoDirector
- Abem FinkelScreenplay
- William Wister HainesScreenplay
- Bernhard KaunOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Humphrey BogartFrank Taylor
- Dick ForanEd Jackson
- Erin O'Brien-MooreRuth Taylor
- Ann SheridanBetty Grogan
- Helen FlintPearl Danvers
- Joe SawyerCliff Summers
- Clifford SoubierMichael F. Grogan
- Alonzo PriceAlf Hargrave
- Paul HarveyBillings
- Dickie JonesBuddy Taylor
- Samuel S. HindsJudge
- Addison RichardsProsecuting Attorney
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Themes
immigrantinventorku klux klandrugstorefearmidwestradio broadcasthate groupmachinistforemanmachine shoppolish american