Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

Review: Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

Director: Fritz Lang

Cast: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O'Keefe,

Brian Donlevy
Brian Donlevy
Walter Brennan
Walter Brennan
Anna Lee
Anna Lee
Gene Lockhart
Gene Lockhart
Dennis O'Keefe
Dennis O'Keefe

Plot: 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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Seeing the world in black-and-white … again

Seeing the world in black-and-white … again

Three more black-and-white movies in excellent Blu-ray editions – Fritz Lang’s Hangmen Also Die!, Robert Wise’s Odds Against Tomorrow and John Baxter’s Love on the Dole – offer yet another reminder of the richness of […]

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