| Legion of Terror | |
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| Directed by | Charles C. Coleman |
| Written by | Bert Granet |
| Produced by | Ralph Cohn |
| Starring | Bruce Cabot Marguerite Churchill Ward Bond Crawford Weaver |
| Cinematography | George Meehan |
| Edited by | Al Clark |
| Music by | Louis Silvers |
Production company | Columbia Pictures |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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Running time | 63 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Legion of Terror is a 1936 American drama/action film, directed by Charles C. Coleman. The film, which stars Bruce Cabot, Marguerite Churchill, Ward Bond, and Crawford Weaver,[1] is a fictionalized story about the real-life Ku Klux Klan splinter group called the Black Legion of the 1930s. It was inspired by the May 1935 murder in Michigan of Charles Poole, a Works Progress Administration worker.
The film preceded and also inspired the making of the critically acclaimed 1937 Warner Bros. feature film Black Legion, which co-starred Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore and Ann Sheridan and which was based on the same case.
- ^ Mavis, Paul (3 March 2011). The Espionage Filmography: United States Releases, 1898 through 1999. McFarland. p. 332. ISBN 978-1-4766-0427-5.