Hangmen Also Die!

About Hangmen Also Die!

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.

Hangmen Also Die! (1943) is a thriller war film directed by Fritz Lang. Released in April 1943, it runs 134 minutes.

The film is filed under hostage, assassination, resistance, and double cross.

Brian Donlevy appears as Dr. Franticek Svoboda, Walter Brennan as Prof. Stephen Novotny, Anna Lee as Masha Novotny, and Gene Lockhart as Emil Czaka. The screenplay is by John Wexley. It streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads in the United States.

Anthropoid, The Butcher of Prague, and Valkyrie make useful companions to Hangmen Also Die!, all filed under assassination of reinhard heydrich (1942) and lidice massacre. TMDB voters put it at 6.9 out of 10 across 145 votes and it carries a NR rating.