The Burning Cross

The Burning Cross

A Daring Expose of the K.K.K.

NR 1947 · 77 min · ★ 7.0 · Crime

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.

Directed by Walter Colmes · Written by Aubrey Wisberg

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