The Burning Cross is a 1947 American drama film directed by Walter Colmes.

The film depicts Ku Klux Klan activities and was censored in Virginia and Detroit.

[2][3][4][5] A war veteran joins the Ku Klux Klan and comes to regard it as evil.

The film was made by Somerset Pictures, established in 1947 by Walter Combes, Solly Levenstein and Jake Milstein.

The New York Times called Screen Guild "a minor organization which can afford the risk of alienating the Southern market.