 Warners did not give the film any special treatment, promoting it and Bogart in their standard fashion.Bogart's breakthrough would come in "High Sierra" in 1941.When passed over for promotion at work in favor of a foreign-born friend, Frank Taylor (Humphrey Bogart), a midwestern factory worker, joins the anti-immigrant Black Legion, a secret white vigilante organization portrayed as related to the Ku Klux Klan.