Hangmen Also Die!

1943 · directed by Fritz Lang

Rating

78/100

Hit

no

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.

Hangmen Also Die! (1943), directed by Fritz Lang, rates 78/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Brian Donlevy
• Walter Brennan
• Anna Lee
• Gene Lockhart
• Dennis O'Keefe
• Margaret Wycherly
• Nana Bryant
• William Roy
• Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
• Alexander Granach

Crew

• James Wong Howe — Director of Photography
• Gene Fowler Jr. — Editor
• John Wexley — Screenplay

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1. M (1931) — 100/100 · hit
2. Metropolis (1927) — 88/100 · hit
3. Scarlet Street (1945) — 86/100 · hit
4. The Big Heat (1953) — 85/100 · hit
5. Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924) — 85/100 · hit
6. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922) — 84/100 · hit

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