Episode 640: Black Legion (1937)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Otto Bruno and Rahne Alexander join Mike to discuss the 1937 Archie Mayo film, Black Legion. Based loosely on the actual racist terrorist organization from Detroit, the film stars Humphrey Bogart as Frank Taylor, a man who gets passed over for a promotion by one of those darned immigrants. He does the only thing that makes sense by joining a hate group and trying to bolster his manhood with violence.

Special guest Tom Stanton talks about his book, Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit , which looks at the highs and lows of 1930s Detroit.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.2	Shut it off.
0:25.4	Turn it off. Wait on take no left from nobody.
0:48.3	That's that stuff.
0:49.3	Hit them hard and quick.
0:50.3	We ain't afraid of nothing to nobody, are we?
0:52.3	Three years for the black leisure. Come on, what's the matter was about?
0:56.0	Nice, Coke.
0:58.0	Soldier of the Black Legion, you see before you an instrument of death.
1:03.0	We give you this half as a symbol of our trust.
1:09.0	The other half you will receive the day you betray that trust.
1:13.4	You've been lying to me.
1:15.1	Don't you call me a liar?
1:16.1	You're Frank.
1:17.1	You did have something to do with all those terrible things.
1:19.5	You and those new friends are yours.
1:20.8	You shut up about my friends.
1:21.8	I won't.
1:22.7	Only a bunch of dirty, contemptible cowards would do a thing like that.
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