The Black Legion ☆1937 Movie Trailer☆

Oh, those violent men! Their violence has wrecked havoc on our world since Cain slew his brother. They pursue the proceeds of incessant drudges-while raping and pillaging and frequently murder is their ultimate game
Throughout history, men manipulate violence as effortless as breathing. Occasionally, they exhibit a desire for backup, those that are disposed to aid in messages of power and violence.
These cowards can't operate alone, divesting their confidence in an army of men advocating fear--voila, the creation of the gang hurls its way through history.

Gangs started innumerable aeons (Homer used aeon to indicate a lifespan) ago, and they will linger on our earth until our sun emits its last rays of life. From the mercenaries ravaging countries in the middle ages to the average pharmaceutical representative selling on their neighborhood corner, persistently ravaging our cities today--these atrocious gentlemen commit such vile actions for one reason, because they can!


Our story begins with Frank, full of rage for losing a promotion. His compulsion requires an urgency to attribute his failures to the flawed human race. An immigrant holds the promotion he hungered for, and now growing feelings of vengeance and hate are replenishing the love once held in his heart.


He joins the Black Legion whose hatred for those pesky immigrants match his own animosity (their slogan should say: "We're children of immigrants, yet we hate all the huddled masses swarming from across the pond" or words to that effect), but along the way, he discovers these radicals aren't playing around.

Humphrey Bogart appears to give a wonderful performance, displaying his excitement in joining the gang, and subsequently disclosing,  through his sadness and terror, the eagerness to escape and the difficulty in departing from this brutal faction.
The movie trailer includes hooded gang members, violence against women, racism, prejudice, pillaging, regret, violence, secrets, hate, fireside chats about murder and drama, drama, drama.


I can't envision a desire to watch a movie about gangs in hoodies drunk with hate and power from the 1930's, so I'm giving it a big thumbs down.





Here is review from the 1937 New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9807E0DB1638EF3ABC4052DFB766838C629EDE

Bullets or Ballots☆1936 Movie Trailer☆

Suit Up would surpass the title of Bullets or Ballots--a universe where the entire race of men (except the average police officer) wears a suit and a fedora. This creates the complication of discerning the good guys from the bad. 
The men appear quite clonish (a word that I've created, meaning the propensity to be a clone), because each man repeatedly appears similar to the next man. At the time, the audience had the ability to differentiate this problem--after 79 years that knowledge is lost to us me.

The scenes from the trailer, present groups of men in cramped rooms, exhibiting immense anxiety disorders-- screaming at each other furiously. Several state they're the boss of the mob, but it's difficult to understand if anyone is indeed in charge. 
I would ask if it's worth the angst and high blood pressure--meanwhile happiness is but a fleeting thought? 
How could people live this way? Why not relinquish the futile frustration and move to a ranch in Montana, where children and cattle can be raised, and live happily ever after? 

After watching the trailer several times, I realized that the movie simply deals with the major issue of organized crime, and the true story (Hollywood's truth) of one man who brought the syndicate down, and not just loud men running amok.

This film receives a complete thumbs down, as I would only watch it for food if I were starving, I received large sum of money, or to save the life of a loved one. 
A film dealing with the mob, made in the thirties, in black and white and containing an insufficient story line, will not be in my immediate future, though the parts showing Edward G Robinson knocking down grown men, with the effort of a child, are quite humorous.