Hangmen Also Die!

1943·134'

Fritz Lang

DramaThrillerWar

★ 6.9

Letterboxd TMDB #22178

The shot heard 'round the world!

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.

Cast

Brian Donlevy Dr. Franticek Svoboda

Walter Brennan Prof. Stephen Novotny

Anna Lee Masha Novotny

Gene Lockhart Emil Czaka

Dennis O'Keefe Jan Horak

Margaret Wycherly Ludmilla Novotny

Nana Bryant Mrs. Hellie Novotny

William Roy Boda Novotny

Hans Heinrich von Twardowski Reinhard Heydrich

Alexander Granach Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber

Tonio Selwart Chief of Gestapo Kurt Haas

Jonathan Hale Dedic