Hangmen Also Die!

Hangmen Also Die!

134 mins | Drama, Thriller, War | April 15, 1943

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.

Hangmen Also Die!

134 mins | Drama, Thriller, War | April 15, 1943

Hangmen Also Die!
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.
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers United Artists, Arnold Pressburger Films
Original title Hangmen Also Die!
Directors Fred Pressburger, Walter Mayo, Fritz Lang
Writers John Wexley, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang

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

Lionel Stander

as Banya

Sarah Padden

as Mrs. Georgia Dvorak

Edmund MacDonald

as Dr. Pillar

Byron Foulger

as Bartos

Virginia Farmer

as Mrs. Nimitz

Ludwig Donath

as Schirmer

George Irving

as Neeval

James Bush

as Peacock

Arno Frey

as Camp Lieutenant Itnut

Lester Sharpe

as Rudy

Arthur Loft

as Gen. Votruba

Reinhold Schünzel

as Gestapo Insp. Ritter

Chester Conklin

as Cook (uncredited)

Claire McDowell

as Counterwoman (uncredited)

John Abbott

as Hostage (scenes deleted)

Louis Adlon

as Adjutant (uncredited)

Erville Alderson

as Liberal Official (uncredited)

Richard Alexander

as Slugger in Theater (uncredited)