Black Legion

Black Legion (1937) is a crime drama you can watch online on iFILM — director Archie Mayo's account of how hate groups recruit ordinary people, with Humphrey Bogart delivering one of his starkest early performances.

Bogart plays Frank Taylor, a Detroit factory machinist passed over for promotion in favour of a Polish immigrant. Bitter and susceptible, he joins the Black Legion — a real KKK offshoot that terrorised the industrial Midwest in the 1930s. The organisation delivers on its promises, until Frank discovers the exit has been sealed: leaving means threats against his wife and son, and every favour done carries a price. What starts as wounded pride ends in murder. Stream Black Legion (1937) online on iFILM.