Episode 640 · Film year 1937
Black Legion (1937)
- Special Guest
- Tom Stanton
- Guest Co-Hosts
- Otto Bruno, Rahne Alexander
Show notes
Otto Bruno (opens in a new tab) and Rahne Alexander (opens in a new tab) 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 (opens in a new tab), which looks at the highs and lows of 1930s Detroit.
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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 (opens in a new tab), which looks at the highs and lows of 1930s Detroit.
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Labels: Archie Mayo Detroit Humphrey Bogart Otto Bruno Rahne Alexander
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Music credits
- "Main Title" - Bernhard Kaun
Links & resources
- Buy Black Legion on DVD (opens in a new tab)
- Listen to Radioactive: The Father Coughlin Story (opens in a new tab)
- Buy Terror in the City of Champions: Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit by Tom Stanton (opens in a new tab)
- Buy American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild (opens in a new tab)
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