Genre: War
Release Date: 01/18/2000
Sound: 1
Run Time: 134 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Kino

Hangmen Also Die is set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation. Czech loyalist Brian Donlevy assassinates the vicious Gestapo leader Heydrich, then goes into hiding. The wounded patriot is sheltered by history professor Walter Brennan, who is already under surveillance by the Nazis thanks to his veiled classroom attacks on the Third Reich. Fifth columnist Gene Lockhart arranges for the professor and 400 other Prague citizens to be rounded up as hostages, to be killed if Heydrich's assassin is not revealed. Ultimately Lockhart himself is framed by the citizenry, giving the actor full scope to cringe and cower as only he could. Persuasively directed by Fritz Lang, Hangmen Also Die was based on a story by Lang and expatriate German playwright Bertold Brecht.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Brian Donlevy - Dr. Franz Svoboda
Walter Brennan - Prof. Stephan Novotny
Anna Lee - Mascha Novotny
Gene Lockhart - Emil Cruka
Dennis O'Keefe - Jan Horek
Alexander Granach - Alois Gruber
Margaret Wycherly - Aunt Ludmilla Novotny
Nana Bryant - Mrs. Novotny
Billy Roy - Beda Novotny
Tonio Selwart - Haas, Gestapo Chief
Jonathan Hale - Dedic
Lionel Stander - Taxi Driver
Byron Foulger - Bartos
Virginia Farmer - Landlady
Ludwig Donath - Schirmer
Sarah Padden - Mrs. Dvorak
Edmund MacDonald - Dr. Pilar
George Irving - Neeval
James Bush - Peacock
Arno Frey - Camp Lieutenant
Lester Sharpe - Rudy, a Hostage
Arthur Loft - Gen. Votruba Bertruba
William Farnum - Viktorin

Production:
Fritz Lang - Director
Fritz Lang Arnold Pressburger - Producer
Hanns Eisler - Composer
Gene Fowler, Jr. - Editor
John Wexley - Screen Writer
Julia Heron - Set Designer
William S. Darling - Art Director
James Wong Howe - Cinematographer
Eleanor Behm - Costume Designer
Julia Heron - Costume Designer
Walter Mayo - First Assistant Director
Arthur Guttman - Musical Direction/Supervision
Bertolt Brecht - Short Story Author
Hanns Eisler - Songwriter
Sam Coslow - Songwriter
Fred Lau - Sound/Sound Designer
Jack Whitney - Sound/Sound Designer

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