Hangmen Also Die
1943, War, 2h 14m
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During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovokia, insurgent Franticek Svoboda (Brian Donlevy) assassinates the brutal German leader Reinhard Heydrich (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski). Svoboda escapes with the aid of history professor Stephen Novotny (Walter Brennan), but Novotny is then captured, along with 400 other Czechs, through the machinations of Nazi sympathizer Emil Czaka (Gene Lockhart). The Czech prisoners are then told that if Svoboda does not surrender, they will all be executed.
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Genre: War
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Original Language: English
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Director: Fritz Lang
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Producer: Fritz Lang, Arnold Pressburger
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Writer: John Wexley
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Distributor: United Artists
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Overlong and occasionally dull, however it deserves serious recognition for being one of the few "Propaganda Films" made in America during WWII that specifically attacks the Nazis and Fascism more broadly for their evil ideas and not just because they were our enemies.
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I find that Fritz Lang's films are often hit-or-miss, but even when they miss, they're still usually interesting failures. "Hangmen Also Die!" isn't a failure at all, but it is too long and not as tensely directed as it should have been. What could have been a riveting thriller about the Czechs getting their revenge against the Nazis ends up being kind of exciting but nonetheless forgettable. Side note: it was co-written by noted German playwright Bertolt Brecht, who seldom wrote screenplays.
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