Hangmen Also Die (1943)
War/Drama/Suspense/Thriller · 2h 14m · 3/27/1943
Description
Fritz Lang, master of the German expressionist cinema, turns his sinister imagination and shadowy technique to a weblike tale of wartime espionage in HANGMEN ALSO DIE. Set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation, HANGMEN depicts an Eastern Europe populated by spies, traitors and revolutionaries...a deadly funhouse of political intrigue in which every personal encounter brings with it the threat of betrayal. Pursued by the Germans after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Dr. Svoboda (Brian Donlevy) enlists the aid of a young woman (Anna Lee) who is oblivious to the lethal crosscurrents that surround her. As she learns more about the mysterious doctor, she grows aware of the involvement of her father (Walter Brennan) and fiancé (Dennis O'Keefe) in the resistance, and soon finds herself entangled in the revolution's secret operations. Much of the nightmarish quality of HANGMEN ALSO DIE is attributable to playwright Bertolt Brecht, who co-scripted the film with Lang, and legendary cinematographer James Wong Howe, who cloaks every corner in shadow and endows the film with an almost tangible sense of claustrophobia. HANGMEN has been digitally mastered from a 35mm print newly struck from the original (but slightly damaged) nitrate negative.
Harry Wilson
Ugly German Bodyguard (uncredited)
Lionel Stander
Banya
Hope Landin
Czech Patriot (uncredited)
Claire McDowell
Counterwoman (uncredited)Rolf Lindau
De Lauge (uncredited)Henry Roquemore
Patriot at Meeting (uncredited)Ernest Roberts
(uncredited)Otto Reichow
Gestapo Agent Schultz (uncredited)
Frank Reicher
Interpreter (uncredited)
Lucien Prival
Policeman (uncredited)
Russ Powell
Tobacconist (uncredited)
Manuel París
Townsman on Street (uncredited)Kurt Neumann
SS Man (uncredited)Carl Neubert
Economist (uncredited)
George N. Neise
Mueller (uncredited)
Frances Morris
Dr. Svoboda's Nurse (uncredited)
Harold Minjir
Butler (uncredited)Edwin Mills
Eduard (uncredited)
Charles Middleton
Patriot at Meeting with Svoboda (uncredited)Peter Michael
SS Captain (uncredited)James Eagles
Svatak (uncredited)Philip Merivale
Policeman (uncredited)John Meredith
Czech Man (uncredited)Robert Malcolm
Czech Patriot (uncredited)
Paul McVey
Jan Pestuca (uncredited)Emmett Lynn
Gerta (uncredited)
Edmund MacDonald
Dr. Pillar
Richard Alexander
Slugger in Theater (uncredited)
Lester Dorr
Aldrich Krapke (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
Townsman (uncredited)
Lane Bradford
Gestapo Officer (uncredited)Margaret Bert
Market Woman (uncredited)
Eddie Kane
Novak (uncredited)Victor Kendall
SS Leader (uncredited)
Hank Bell
Driver (uncredited)Florence Auer
Czech Patriot (uncredited)Jack Alfred
Busboy (uncredited)Erville Alderson
Liberal Official (uncredited)
Fred Essler
Dr. Kesselbach (uncredited)Louis Adlon
Adjutant (uncredited)
Earle S. Dewey
Wine Waiter (uncredited)
John Abbott
Hostage (scenes deleted)James Bush
Peacock
George Irving
Neeval
Arthur Loft
Gen. Votruba
Lester Sharpe
Rudy
Rita La Roy
Girl (uncredited)
Byron Foulger
Bartos
Jonathan Hale
DedicSarah Padden
Mrs. Georgia Dvorak
Ludwig Donath
Schirmer (as Louis Donath)
Reinhold Schünzel
Gestapo Insp. Ritter (as Reinhold Schuenzel)
Alexander Granach
Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber
Tonio Selwart
Chief of Gestapo Kurt Haas
Gene Lockhart
Emil Czaka
Dennis O'Keefe
Jan Horak
Margaret Wycherly
Ludmilla NovotnyWilliam Roy
Beda Novotny (as Billy Roy)
Nana Bryant
Mrs. Hellie Novotny
Anna Lee
Masha Novotny
Brian Donlevy
Dr. Franticek Svoboda / Karel Vanek
Walter Brennan
Prof. Stephen Novotny
Louis V. Arco
Nazi Official (uncredited)Frederic Brunn
SS Officer (uncredited)Bryn Davis
Girl (uncredited)
Max Davidson
Bearded Man (uncredited)Edith Conrad
Woman in Audience (uncredited)
Chester Conklin
Cook (uncredited)
Steve Clemente
Knife Thrower (uncredited)
Richard Clarke
Priest (uncredited)
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Reinhard Heydrich (as H. H v. Twardowski)Arno Frey
Camp Lt. Itnut
Fred Kohler Jr.
Czech Patriot (uncredited)
William 'Billy' Benedict
Kylar (uncredited)Manart Kippen
Dovolga (uncredited)Edna Bennett
Pregnant Woman (uncredited)Bud Jamison
Fat Man (uncredited)
Sam Harris
Man at Briefing (uncredited)
William Haade
Mildrad (uncredited)
George Guhl
Workman (uncredited)Inna Gest
Hatcheck Girl (uncredited)Jack George
Polcar (uncredited)Hans Fuerberg
Personal Adjutant (uncredited)
Dwight Frye
Hostage (uncredited)
Hans Schumm
Sergeant (uncredited)
Betty Farrington
Heavyset Woman (uncredited)
Virginia Farmer
Mrs. Nimitz
Fern Emmett
Peasant Woman (uncredited)
Edward Earle
Professor (uncredited)David Durand
Bicycle Boy (uncredited)Gretl Dupont
Angry Woman (uncredited)
Kurt Kreuger
Gestapo Officer (uncredited)
Ralph Dunn
Czech Policeman (uncredited)Walter Thiele
Police Official (uncredited)Albin Robeling
Clerk (uncredited)John Piffle
Industrialist (uncredited)
William Farnum
Viktorin (uncredited)
Felix Basch
(uncredited)Oscar Blank
Hostage (uncredited)
Willy Castello
SS Guard (uncredited)
Jimmy Dime
Gestapo Detective (uncredited)Tex Driscoll
Hostage (uncredited)Liesl Handl
Slugger's Girlfriend in Theater (uncredited)Carl M. Leviness
Man at Briefing (uncredited)Merrill McCormick
Cabbie (uncredited)
Louis Merrill
Industrialist (uncredited)
Robert Milasch
Hostage (uncredited)Paul Power
Man at Briefing (uncredited)
Janet Shaw
Katerina Honiga (uncredited)George Sherwood
SS Lieutenant (uncredited)Mabel Smaney
Woman on Street (uncredited)Pietro Sosso
Waiter (uncredited)Robert R. Stephenson
Nazi Guard in Visitors' Pen (uncredited)
Carl Stockdale
Cigarette Smoker (uncredited)Henry Sylvester
Tall Czech (uncredited)
Forrest Taylor
Pipe Smoker (uncredited)
Sigfrid Tor
Gescky (uncredited)Fred Trowbridge
Man in Audience (uncredited)Lisl Valetti
Secretary (uncredited)
Philip Van Zandt
Officer (uncredited)Lucio Villegas
Townsman at Briefing (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan
Hostage Wearing Glasses (uncredited)Hans von Morhart
Policeman (uncredited)Sam Waagenaar
SS Man (uncredited)Fay Wall
Secretary (uncredited)Eddy Waller
Hansom Cab Driver (uncredited)Crane Whitley
SS Headquarters Man (uncredited)
Guy Wilkerson
Santrock (uncredited)
Fritz Lang
DirectorFritz Lang
WriterBertolt Brecht
WriterJohn Wexley
Writer
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To Be or Not to Be
Ministry of Fear
The Seventh Cross
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Lifeboat
Sabotage
The 39 Steps
Night Train To Munich
Watch on the Rhine
Address Unknown
None Shall Escape
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Edge of Darkness
Berlin Express
The Stranger
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