Hangmen Also Die (1943)
Recommended to mature audiences
| Director: | Fritz Lang |
| Actors: | Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Nana Bryant, Hans Heinrich Von Twardowski |
Depicting the events surrounding the assassination of a Nazi general during WWII, Fritz Lang's thrilling film is a masterpiece of intrigue and deception. With his usual skill Lang weaves a tale of gripping suspense: the Gestapo's efforts to find the assassin the workings of the Czech resistance fighters and the traitor who is finally hoisted on his own petard...
| Status: | Normal |
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| Run time: | 134mins |
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| Aspect Ratio: | 16:9 |
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Art S.
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Absorbing (and unpredictable) tale that examines the aftermath of the assassination of the head of the Nazi occupation ("the Hangman") in Czechoslovakia for both the resistance and the occupiers. Our sympathies lie with Brian Donlevy (the assassin) and the woman he accidentally drags into the fight (Anna Lee), whose father (Walter Brennan, a university professor here) is already under suspicion by the occupation. "Bert" Brecht contributed to the story/screenplay and sued the producers when he didn't get the primary credit -- some traces of his philosophy remain but this is a thriller in the Hollywood mode of the time.