Throughout the Classic Film Black Legion, (About a real murder carried out by the Klu Klux Klan )Humphrey Bogarts Character is often seen seated and looking up in a pleading victim pose. When you watch the film look for scenes where he feels he is helpless and alone against the power of a group and how his body language changes when he joins the Legion the Klu Klux Klan group. You see the power he gains from being in the mob/cult of the Klan, the power of the mob, and in this and other scenes how powerless he feels when he contemplates leaving it.
This film is not well known but it does an amazing job showing how the cult drew him in with promises of strength and power.
FYI another nonverbal symbol the white cross on a red background was used in the film. The film did such a good job and showing the evils of the Klan that the Klan sued Warner Bros. for patent infringement for the film's use of a patented Klan insignia: a white cross on a red background with a black square. A judge threw out the case.[
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