The Burning Cross

The Burning Cross (1947)

A Daring Expose of the K.K.K.

  • Genre: Crime
  • Release Date: 1947-09-01
  • User Rating: 5/10 from 1 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 17min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Somerset Pictures Corp.
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Walter Colmes
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Summary

Recently returned from WWII combat, unable to find a job, finding his sweetheart engaged to another man, and generally aware of the changes which have occurred in his hometown while he was away, a young man becomes easily talked into joining the Ku Klux Klan. Banned by the Virginia Board of Censors, and financed independently because no bank would loan money for it.

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  • Henry H. Daniels Jr.

    as Johnny Larimer

  • Virginia Patton

    as Doris Green

  • Dick Rich

    as Lud Harris

  • Betty Roadman

    as Agatha Larimer

  • Raymond Bond

    as Dad Larimer

  • Matt Willis

    as Mort Dauson

  • Alexander Pope

    as Howard Gibbons

  • Joel Fluellen

    as Charlie West

  • John Fostini

    as Tony Areni

  • Walden Boyle

    as Investigator Walter Strickland

  • Jack Shutta

    as Police Lt. Ira Hill

  • John Doucette

    as Toby Mason

  • Herb Vigran

    as Jim Todd

  • Richard Bailey

    as Eddie "Pel" Pelham

  • Madie Norman

    as Kitty West

  • Glen Allen

    as Bobby West

  • Tom Kennedy

    as Police Station Sergeant

  • Ross Elliott

    as The Murdered Picket

  • Matthew Beard

    as Shoeshiner (uncredited)

  • Marion Brown

    as Minor Role (uncredited)

  • Ted Stanhope

    as Bill Elkins - Florist (uncredited)

  • Mollie MacIntosh

    as Minor Role (uncredited)

  • Marjorie Manners

    as Minor Role (uncredited)

  • Betty McMahon

    as Minor Role (uncredited)

  • Helen Servis

    as Minor Role (uncredited)

  • Peggy Wynne

    as Minor Role (uncredited)

  • Jamesson Shade

    as Minor Role (uncredited)

  • Tom Daly

    as Minor Role (uncredited)

  • Mike Donovan

    as Guard (uncredited)

  • Rory Mallinson

    as Minor Role (uncredited)

  • William Murphy

    as Minor Role (uncredited)

  • Herbert Wilms

    as Minor Role (uncredited)

  • Victor Zimmerman

    as Minor Role (uncredited)

  • Clinton Rosemond

    as Grandpa West (bit)
Sound Ferol Redd Sound
Sound Ralph Stanley Original Music Composer
Art Jacques Mapes Set Designer
Directing George Moskov Assistant Director
Camera Walter Strenge Director of Photography
Directing Walter Colmes Director
Editing Jason H. Bernie Editor
Art George Bahr Property Master
Art Frank Paul Sylos Art Direction
Costume & Make-Up Ted Larsen Makeup Artist
Writing Selvyn Levinson Idea
Writing Aubrey Wisberg Screenplay
Costume & Make-Up James H. Wade Wardrobe Supervisor
Production Walter Colmes Co-Producer

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