
Deadline - U.S.A.(1952)
With three days before his paper folds, a crusading editor tries to expose a vicious gangster.


“They Murdered at Midnight!”
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.

Humphrey Bogart
Frank Taylor

Dick Foran
Ed Jackson

Erin O'Brien-Moore
Ruth Taylor

Ann Sheridan
Betty Grogan

Helen Flint
Pearl Danvers

Joe Sawyer
Cliff Summers
Clifford Soubier
Michael F. Grogan
Alonzo Price
Alf Hargrave

Paul Harvey
Billings

Dickie Jones
Buddy Taylor
Black Legion is a crime, drama film released in 1937 exploring themes of immigrant, inventor, ku klux klan, drugstore, fear, midwest. Directed by Archie Mayo, it stars Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore. 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.
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