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Actors: Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart, Alexander Granach
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Hangmen Also Die |
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Produced, co-written and directed by german director Fritz Lang, HANGMEN ALSO DIE has been theatrically released in 1943.
We are in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1942. The Nazi Reichsprotector, Reinhard Heydrich, called -The Hangman-, has just been assassinated by the local resistance. The Gestapo arrests 300 intellectuals among the civil population and threats to execute 10 of them every 24 hours as long as the responsible is not arrested. One of the prisoners is Professor Novotny, played by Walter Brennan, whose daughter Nasha has joined the resistance.
A masterpiece.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Hangmen Also Die |
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Plot
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- deposing an evil leader
- finding a spy/saboteur
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Army
Specific to
- WW II
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- doctor
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Eastern European
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Eastern European
Main Adversary
Identity:
- enemy army
Specific kind of enemies?
- right wing dictatorship
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Eastern Europe
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 (None)
Kind of violence:
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- perforation--bullets
Check here if B&W
Yes
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