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The Burning Cross

5.0 77 mins Crime   1947
Somerset Pictures Corp.  
Director(s): Walter Colmes

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.

Casts of The Burning Cross

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

John Doucette

as Toby Mason

Alexander Pope

as Howard Gibbons

Joel Fluellen

as Charlie West

John Fostini

as Tony Areni

Walden Boyle

as Investigator Walter Strickland

Richard Bailey

as Eddie "Pel" Pelham

Jack Shutta

as Police Lt. Ira Hill

Ross Elliott

as The Combative Striker

Herb Vigran

as Jim Todd

Madie Norman

as Kitty West

Glen Allen

as Bobby West

Tom Kennedy

as Police Station Sergeant

Clinton Rosemond

as Grandpa West

Matthew Beard

as Shoeshiner (uncredited)

Marion Brown

as Minor Role (uncredited)

Tom Daly

as Minor Role (uncredited)

Mike Donovan

as Guard (uncredited)

Mollie MacIntosh

as Minor Role (uncredited)

Marjorie Manners

as Minor Role (uncredited)

Betty McMahon

as Minor Role (uncredited)

William Murphy

as Minor Role (uncredited)

Helen Servis

as Minor Role (uncredited)

Jamesson Shade

as Minor Role (uncredited)

Ted Stanhope

as Bill Elkins - Florist (uncredited)

Peggy Wynne

as Minor Role (uncredited)

Rory Mallinson

as Minor Role (uncredited)

Herbert Wilms

as Minor Role (uncredited)

Victor Zimmerman

as Minor Role (uncredited)

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