The Burning Cross (1947) | Joel Fluellen
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- The Burning Cross is a 1947 American drama film directed by Walter Colmes. It was written by Aubrey Wisberg and released by Screen Guild Productions.
A war veteran joins the Ku Klux Klan and comes to regard it as evil.
Shared for historical purposes.
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I am loving this channel. These films may be historical but this history is repeating itself.
Excellent social commentary from 1947. Thoroughly enjoyed watching that - thanks for posting this one.
reelblack, you are a treasure, and treasure trove. Like a griot, a "Keeper of the Flame", a keeper of our history on so many levels and so many areas. Thank you, from my heart.
Your use of that term, "Keeper Of The Flame," is ironic, because that was the title of a movie about the death of a man considered an American patriot and how, in the end, his widow reveals that her husband was really a Fascist, who, among other things, was a supporter of the Ku Klux Klan, which was the subject of this film presented here.
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The musical score to this movie is awesome.
They were in the police force THEN as they are NOW. And they wonder why folks are rioting these days.
"MASONIC Fraternal Order of Police", "masonic" KKK... Read "1666, Redemption Through Sin", pdf online.
@@NotitiaRecolligo spoken like a true victim
You are reeking with your hatred of police, you are very obviously a cold- hearted racist
More so why some don't trust the police.
My mother was 7 years old when this movie came out, and I am about to be 55 years old in February 2020.
Happy bday you’re 56 now
Wow
@ kissing friend, same here.
It's in their blood to be evil.
Well presented film
Hopefully we ALL LEARN FROM PAST. Never to REPEATED. 🗽amen
We never learn from the past, that's why we still do stupid ish
@@mikerodgers7620, you sound like a hateful, racist, foolish clown.
@@mikerodgers7620 , awww ... your itty bitty worthless feelings are hurt? Are you mad, you creature? You need Jesus.
@@yessumyessum6624 no yours is.
@@mikerodgers7620 ""False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." - Socrates
"Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false." - Bertrand Russell
Thank you for these films!
Amazing find again Reelblack. 👍
This makes me sad cause things haven't changed that much.
It has.
idiot
@@eliegbert8121 Sorry no one is worshiping you yet.
@@alphaomega8373 apology accepted.
@@eliegbert8121 :) thanks
Thank for sharing this "FOR REAL" movie. this is still happening today, But not only the kkk are in the police dept, kkk is in all law enforcement dept. racism is build into this country. It's so sad!
grand imperial k
You can leave it it is too bad.
@@mikerodgers7620 "The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." - Samuel P. Huntington
Paranoid much?
@@mikerodgers7620 If you're not native American, u can shut the hell up.
Many thanks for unearthing this rare gem.
As a northerner, I’ve only encountered the KKK or a member of it twice. Once was on a bicycle tour of Indiana in 1979. The police had the area cordoned off and seeing we were on bikes, gave us a choice of continuing on the designated route right past them, or of adding some 30 miles to our ride. The tour leaders took us right past them out in the field and milling around the vehicles parked on both sides of the road. We were warned not to stop for any reason, not to talk to anyone, not to take pictures. Some of them shouted unrepeatable words and phrases at us. I was shocked to see whole families with the old folks and the kids, like they were at a company picnic or something. Frankly, I was scared. I later heard a biker had had a soda bottle thrown at him, but he didn’t get hurt. I’m not sure, but I don’t think anyone on the tour was Black, but a lot were Jewish, not exactly welcome by the KKK.
In 2015 I encountered North Carolina State Forest campground hosts, a couple in their 70s, who were in the Klan--and apparently proud to tell me about it. Having NY tags on my car, they asked if I was from the city, and proceeded to ask me questions about the n-words. They were particularly opposed to interracial dating and marriage. I think they were testing me to see whether I was acceptable to join them for a cup of coffee at their site. I didn’t stick around to find out, just paid for two nights and was on my way.
Pity the ignorance of RACISM....
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Indiana is the southern most northern state and the northern most southern state. Hotbed for the KKK
@@johnathandaviddunster38
There’s racism in EVERY race.
Black American and other african decedents have suffered for centuries due to the vicious evils of white supremacy Im truly proud of my culture, my race and our struggle! We are genetically strong powerful and resilient people’ 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL 🖤🖤
European overlords were exploiting poor whites 1000years ago ....
@Ben-j7i8f thats whats most racist say
At 31:00, the burning cross is actually the Peace Cross located in Bladensburg, Maryland, in the state with the most Ku Klux Klan membership per capital and the hometown of the August 1966 picketers against the Washington, DC Beatles concert in 1966.
La Plata MD. Large klan membership...they tried going more underground but family members have outed them. Crazy in 2021..🥺
@@letakeokuk5446 Get the Shock Troops together and destroy them.
Appreciate you sharing,reelback !✊🏽❤️
This sad but not surprising..we cant be family, God knows we tried. #blackandProud
Some of still are
But unfortunately most won’t
I no longer believe it.
This is a pretty good movie!I born in 1947!Stuff like this was NOT shown in my "hood"!This movie is MILD compared to the things they ACTUALLY did!Since then,only the technology has changed,NOT thinking!Some may argue it has,but I beg to differ!I been watching a LONG time and I have seen very little change!Anyway,I out!
BOOKER, I'M SO SORRY FOR PREJUDICES YOU'RE EXPERIENCING. I'M WHITE. BUT MY FAMILY IS WHAT I JOKINGLY REFER TO AS A " VERY MIXED FRUIT SALAD" BECAUSE WE ARE COMBINED FROM MANY DIFFERENT RACES.
GROWING UP IN SO MANY HORRIBLE, CONDEMNED "HOUSES" IN VERY ROUGH NEIGHBORHOODS I TOOK A LOT OF BEATINGS FROM
FROM KIDS WHO HATED ME. THE FACT IS, IT WAS FROM WHITE KIDS! I CAN ONLY THINK THAT IT WAS BECAUSE I NEVER USED VIOLENCE TO COMBAT VIOLENCE. IN A ROUGH NEIGHBORHOOD THAT IS A EASY TARGET.
I'VE BEEN TREATED BAD MOST OF MY LIFE.
I'VE NEVER BEEN ONE TO PURPOSELY HURT ANYONE. MY " MIXED UP FRUIT SALAD FAMILY" IS SWEET AND GOOD FOR THE BODY.
THANK YOU LORD JESUS. I NEEDED THAT.
Booker I agree what we are actually experiencing today isn't a true and genuine human experience. Its been nothing but a big mixed up mental condition that if it hasn't been cured by now ,it will become a serious heart condition.
@@fayebrokaw2453 I am black, time to get over it..this movie is 74 years old for example.
@@benjamindoerrmann9356
And the systemic problems are still here......
To deny this point ,is to live in denial...
I'm also african american..
60 years old and a honorably discharged vet.
This is my favorite UA-camr
Me too
In this cross burning at 33:00 Richard M. Nixon, Lee Harvey Oswald, Congressman Joseph Martin, and US Senator Joseph McCarthy, along with the 4 Lennon Sisters, join the Ku Klux Klan in this ceremony that takes place just south of Rockville, Maryland.
bullshit
Wow! Lee Oswald. I can believe it.
The Lennon Sisters were prejudiced?
I was surprised they got peanut man and President Carter to join too. By force.
@@GoldandAppelOswald was a communist, hung out in Russia for awhile, it was a different world then, we were fighting the big red scare, McCarthyism.
“As citizens of the invisible empire” is all you ever needed to know about white supremacy.
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"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." - George Orwell
Racial segregation was “not a disease of colored people, but a disease of white people!” - Albert Einstein
@@ChagoWilson I am black,,did you ever think white people use what they have better? they have more responsible fathers, not ones that bang and run only to make more welsfare recipients?
@@benjamindoerrmann9356 Oh, so just because you preface your comment with "I am black" that your comment is somehow valid and not the absurdly hate-driven and totally inacurate myth that it is????
@@benjamindoerrmann9356 true
That movie Birth of A Nation started something.......That movie was deep on many levels. Pick your Level
I didn't like where they put sheets on the horses in that movie. Tried to insinuate that the animals were on their level. Nope! Horses are not racist! The horses were on a higher level.
@@Cat-ik1wo
I think they put white sheets on their horses to make people (especially the supposedly superstitious blacks) think that both they and their horses were the ghosts of Confederate soldiers and the steeds on which they rode into battle, and were now allegedly seeking revenge on former slaves, whom many white Southerners blamed for the defeat of the Confederate states in the Civil War.
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At 30:40, the klan membership invitation ceremony takes place in North Potomac, Maryland, on what is is now Coldstream Drive, where more than half of the houses are now owned and occupied by African-Americans. This ceremony takes places on October 31, 1946 &Father Charles Coughlin with the baby Lennon Sisters are in attendance as the totter Lennon Sisters were initatied into the Ku Klux Klan at that time!!!!
Any one who burns a cross need to go to the lake of fire
Why is that?
where is a lake of fire?
@@dcjoe3876Mt Vesuvius
All that shytt comes out of Babylon.
I remember growing up and the lady that lived next door was so racist towards me but would play crazy when she would see my mom😂😂
Just shows how evil a person can be to take out their frustration on a child.
Silly ho, she will pay
Most of them act kool but wait till u outnumbered
Mad1
@@morrisstanback566don't go around their a##.
The first time I saw this back in the 60's, I thought the actor playing Charlie was Flip Wilson
Joel Fluellen
Thks for sharing!
This was re-done (sorta) as "Black Legion", a little more mainstream film with Humphrey Bogart, Dick Moran, and other Hollywood names. A little different circumstances; same theme.
That movie on Netflix “ mudbound “ is loosely based off this
thank you i will check it out
Sad! Thanks for sharing!
Mrs. Fluellen, a very sad reality indeed.
@D Billycheck I'm not sure what your comment is implying. CARRY ON!
@Luvelle Cummings, III I married into the Fluellen Family. My Husband doesn't know if he is related to Joel Fluellen.
would these evil racists prefer to die than be operated on by a black surgeon .?? i doubt it. hypocrites, all of them . i'm white, by the way.
The father in this film is spot-on, and the son clould not be more wrong, in spite of all the more or less legitimate reasons he cites in defense. How pernicious is Evil in all its guises!
*could
The simplistic ending trivializes most of the film's serious intent. Propaganda.
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Candice Owens, deceived by the invisible empire.
...so r Democrat Blacks...both sides..
@@iamcalledirenechaliz-lopez Preach!
@@iamcalledirenechaliz-lopez the dems and msm play black folks like a fiddle
Looks like Stymie Beard on shoeshine at 18:58, Mike.
Wahoo a solid music we could never forget as i was going to see a movies then? ?
The Righteous always suffer for the misdeeds of the Wicked. That is the message of the True Cross. That is how God works. He exposes the Wicked for what they are, and then is vindicated by how events turn out.
There is no consolation in that. None!
There is every consolation in complying with the Will of God. Please reconsider.
This film seems to have caused quite a stir in the comments section all I will say I found it to be for a low budget film well plotted and acted thanks for posting.
It's not hard act what you are, Hollywierd was racist as hell in 1947.
Great film, guys!
This why we black as a whole should've vacated America and never given back to this country again. nothing's changed neither has the government they stood by watched and even participated.
There's still time to make Liberia great.
Many think we Black's should've went back to Africa when we were offered the chance.
@@aarondigby5054
I don't agree with you or @phillip6950. If the black people of America were to leave this country and never come back, they would be playing right into the hands of the same racial bigots you rightfully detest so much, because you'll be doing exactly what they have wanted you to do ever since slavery was abolished.
You'll be telling the KKK, the Neo-Nazis, the Aryan Nations, and all the other White Supremacists they have WON, that they can now completely own the entire United States of America and can claim it entirely for the white people.
What's more, it will serve to vindictive their belief that God had intended America to be a "white man's country," without a single non-white person in it, even though this country and continent originally belonged to the "Red man," the original Native Americans, AKA the Indians (who were only called that because Christopher Columbus mistook the so-called "New World" for India). If the bigots of this nation think they can drive the blacks out, they'll probably go after the Indians next, and God knows what other non-white indigenous people they'll persecute next.
So, if you're wise, you'll forget about this insane idea, and stay in America, just to show those racists that they can't push you around!
Now we can see who has always worked with the devil
What? They didn’t extend the courtesy of riding him out of town on a rail?
"Sure thing, Mr. Johnny!"
Yassah!
There seems to be a reoccurring theme, the lead character oft times is called "Johnny"
That's a cold oath. I thought Prince Hall oath tuff. 😲
The New York Times called Screen Guild "a minor organization which can afford the risk of alienating the Southern market."[
Just watch this movie for the first time. I love the husband and wife scene were the father said turn it off and explained why. And when their son support the speech his father disagreed with his son behavior of hatred.
KKK retired using the robe and hood. The Black Panthers had no choice
That made no sense.
@@mikerodgers7620 "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
@@ChagoWilson remember the words you bum.
@@ChagoWilson be silent dumb nigga. Quoting quotes from other people don't make you smart. 😁
@@mikerodgers7620 The self-righteous sickness, insatiable GREED & insanity of white supremacy/racism and capitalism MUST end before we are ALL destroyed!
Stymie from The Little Rascals is in this film.
Thats my crew bro. All gathered around the table. GOD we LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!! JESUS we LOVE YOU!!!! My 16 Angels I Love You.
Be polite and restectfull to us and evrerything gonna be alright,yes Mista my life is in almigthy hands!!!
My people.
Is this what kane in his grand parents was watching on mence2society
The invisible empire is hellbent on making YOU invisible.
Not if I tap his a#$ with a9mm
Really curious film for the era.
1947
"...Making America Great Again..."
Here it is 2020 and nigga whine is better than ever! 😀
Not 25 years before the making of this film the Democratic Party held what may have been the biggest Klan gathering in history, and it was held in Madison Square Garden! Absolute, undeniable fact. "White Supremacy" was its motto, because it appealed so broadly to prejudiced Americans regadless of any party-leanings or none. That was central to their recruiting strategy. Because Marxism was racially bigoted from the inception of the movement (Marx, Engels), they might just as well have been true Fascist Socialists. In other words, Radical Socialists could and did unite around a common theme which had been supported by so many non-aligned American citizens who saw the influence of foreigners to be largely negative during this period. Remember, the fact immigration into the USA had been effectively banned for more than 20 years by this time, and would not be reinstated until JFK!
Pity the ignorance of RACISM...
At 57:00 or thereabouts we hear a courageous African American citing Lincoln as the guarantor of the right to vote.
Great movie it needs to be in colour
where is Trump
Let that boy boogie woogie
some #ADOS using the same talking points from this movie lol
These guys sound like Trump supporters....
Lol
Yes
Not a bad movie he was down on his luck
lol, this comment section...the news media definitely is a WMD
Damn that sounds like the trump campaign MAGA
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This movie is so stupid,(Charlie you're my freind:yes mista Johnny)the poor white men abued by the wrongs,when i see that kind of trick i'd like to be a black panther,but have one only problem i'm white!!!
Go join the Klan.
You can be a black Panther, they represent the poor and there's plenty of poor white brother's who suffer oppression from elitist corporate greed, as a matter of fact, George Jackson, Eldredge cleaver formed a coalition with poor white working class when they came south to help with voter drives and recruiting
This movie was silly, racist, and hilarious. Mostly like The Three Stooges on white supremacist steroids. Unfortunately true and still demonstratively valid today in March 2021.
Wow, what a critique.
Want some fried chicken, boy?
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