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Hangmen Also Die!

The shot heard 'round the world!

1943 · NR · 2h 14m

Directed by Fritz Lang

6.9

TMDB audience score
146 votes, out of 10

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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.

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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

  • Byron Foulger
    Bartos

  • Virginia Farmer
    Mrs. Nimitz

  • Ludwig Donath
    Schirmer