Hangmen Also Die!
The shot heard 'round the world!
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.
- Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
- Studio: United Artists, Arnold Pressburger Films
- Keyword: assassination, nazi, hostage, resistance, world war ii, surgeon, czechoslovakia, prague, czech republic, gestapo, double cross, nazi occupation, assassination of reinhard heydrich (1942), lidice massacre
- Cast: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, Dennis O'Keefe, Margaret Wycherly