Hangmen Also Die!
“The shot heard 'round the world!”
1943•NR•2h 14m•6.9•Released
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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.
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
John Wexley
Languages
English, German
Studio
United Artists
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
Lionel Stander
Banya
Sarah Padden
Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
Edmund MacDonald
Dr. Pillar
Production
Company
United Artists
Company
Arnold Pressburger Films
Producer
Fritz Lang
Producer
Arnold Pressburger
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