Hangmen Also Die!
Hangmen Also Die!
Release: 1943-04-15
·Runtime: 134m
·★ 6.9
Drama
Thriller
War
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
United Artists
Arnold Pressburger Films
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Margaret Wycherly
as Ludmilla Novotny
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
as Reinhard Heydrich
George Irving
as Neeval
Louis Adlon
as Adjutant (uncredited)
Brian Donlevy
as Dr. Franticek Svoboda
William Roy
as Boda Novotny
Jonathan Hale
as Dedic
Ludwig Donath
as Schirmer
Erville Alderson
as Liberal Official (uncredited)
Dwight Frye
as Hostage
Gene Lockhart
as Emil Czaka
Lionel Stander
as Banya
Richard Alexander
as Slugger in Theater (uncredited)
Philip Van Zandt
as Officer (uncredited)
Nana Bryant
as Mrs. Hellie Novotny
Alexander Granach
as Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber
Chester Conklin
as Cook (uncredited)
John Abbott
as Hostage (scenes deleted)
Edmund MacDonald
as Dr. Pillar
Claire McDowell
as Counterwoman (uncredited)
Ralph Dunn
as Czech Policeman (uncredited)
Bud Jamison
as Fat Man (uncredited)
Walter Brennan
as Prof. Stephen Novotny
Dennis O'Keefe
as Jan Horak
Tonio Selwart
as Chief of Gestapo Kurt Haas
Arthur Loft
as Gen. Votruba
Byron Foulger
as Bartos
Anna Lee
as Masha Novotny
Sarah Padden
as Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
Virginia Farmer
as Mrs. Nimitz
James Bush
as Peacock
Lester Sharpe
as Rudy
Reinhold Schünzel
as Gestapo Insp. Ritter