Hangmen Also Die!
movie
The shot heard 'round the world!
Released April 15, 1943
Overview
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
as
Dr. Franticek Svoboda
Walter Brennan
as
Prof. Stephen Novotny
Anna Lee
as
Masha Novotny
Gene Lockhart
as
Emil Czaka
Dennis O'Keefe
as
Jan Horak
Margaret Wycherly
as
Ludmilla Novotny
Nana Bryant
as
Mrs. Hellie Novotny
William Roy
as
Boda Novotny
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
as
Reinhard Heydrich
Alexander Granach
as
Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber
Tonio Selwart
as
Chief of Gestapo Kurt Haas
Jonathan Hale
as
Dedic
Crew
Bertolt Brecht
as
Adaptation
Fritz Lang
as
Director
Fritz Lang
as
Producer
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John Wexley
as
Screenplay
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Arnold Pressburger
as
Music
Bertolt Brecht
as
Original Story
Fritz Lang
as
Original Story
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Arnold Pressburger
as
Producer
James Wong Howe
as
Director of Photography
Fritz Lang
as
Adaptation
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Fred Pressburger
as
Assistant Director
Hanns Eisler
as
Music