The Burning Cross (1947)

7.0/10 77 min Crime

Overview

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.

Cast

Henry H. Daniels Jr.

Johnny Larimer

Virginia Patton

Doris Green

Dick Rich

Lud Harris

Betty Roadman

Agatha Larimer

Raymond Bond

Dad Larimer

Matt Willis

Mort Dauson

John Doucette

Toby Mason

Joel Fluellen

Charlie West

Richard Bailey

Eddie "Pel" Pelham

Ross Elliott

The Combative Striker

Herb Vigran

Jim Todd

Tom Kennedy

Police Station Sergeant

Clinton Rosemond

Grandpa West

Matthew Beard

Shoeshiner (uncredited)

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