{"id":43209,"date":"2026-11-06T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43209"},"modified":"2026-11-02T11:41:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:41:21","slug":"hangmen-also-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=43209","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hangmen Also Die&#8221; (1943) directed by Fritz Lang, starring Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennon and Anna Lee \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z110626zview_hangmendie.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Hangmen Also Die <\/i>(1943)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Fritz Lang<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:<strong>\u00a0John Wexley; <\/strong>story by <strong>Fritz Lang, Bertolt Brecht<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O&#8217;Keefe<br \/>\n<\/strong>and<strong> Alexander Granach<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Fritz Lang&#8217;s masterpiece of intrigue and deception.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">World War II rages.\u00a0 Nazis control Czechoslovakia.\u00a0 Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi in charge of the occupation is so brutal he&#8217;s been given the nickname <em>&#8220;The Hangman of Europe&#8221;<\/em>.\u00a0 The Czech resistance&#8217;s scheme to assassinate Heydrich is a success, but the escape plan goes sideways.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dr. Franti\u0161ek Svoboda, the <em>Hangman&#8217;s<\/em> killer goes on the run.\u00a0 As the Nazis close in, a young woman named Mascha helps hide Svoboda.\u00a0 Unable to find their leader&#8217;s killer, the Nazis begin a door-to-door search.\u00a0 They also round up civilians for executions.<\/p>\n<p>With the Nazis closing in and the execution of innocents underway it appears all hope is lost&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Hangmen Also Die!<\/em> was nominated for two 1944 <em>Academy Awards<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nominee for <em>Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture<\/em> <strong>&#8211; Hanns Eisler<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Nominee for <em>Best Sound, Recording<\/em><strong> &#8211; Jack Whitney<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There really was a Nazi named Reinhard Heydrich nicknamed <em>&#8220;The Hangmen&#8221;<\/em>.\u00a0 Although Heydrich was assassinated, <em>Hangmen Also Die!<\/em> is a fictionalized account.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Hangmen Also Die! <\/em>was made during the height of World War II.\u00a0 <em>Hangmen Also Die!<\/em> went into production just four months after the death of Reinhard Heydrich.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Nazi response to the assassination was&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">to wipe the village of Lidice off the map.\u00a0 They dynamited and bulldozed buildings and even plowed over the local cemetery.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">All 173 men and teenage boys over the age of 15 were lined up and shot by an execution squad.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Out of 105 children, 82 were murdered in gas vans. A small handful were deemed &#8220;racially suitable for Germanization&#8221; and given to SS families.<br \/>\n\u2022 The remaining women were sent to Ravensbr\u00fcck concentration camp.<\/li>\n<li>The village of Le\u017e\u00e1ky was also burned to the ground.\u00a0 All men and women were killed and the children taken away.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Czech Orthodox Church was banned and its property confiscated.\u00a0 The Bishop Gorazd, the priests, and church lay leaders were arrested, tortured, and executed by firing squad.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country was placed under martial law.\u00a0 Executions were held daily with the names of those killed announced on the radio.\u00a0\u00a0 It was estimated that approximately 5,000 people were murdered or executed during the Nazi reprisals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Hangmen Also Die <\/i>(1943)<\/strong> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z110626zview_hangmendie2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hangmen Also Die (1943) Director:\u00a0 Fritz Lang Screenplay:\u00a0John Wexley; story by Fritz Lang, Bertolt Brecht Stars:\u00a0 Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[51,72,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-history","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43209"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43321,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43209\/revisions\/43321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}