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.

Drama Thriller War

Brian Donlevy

(Dr. Franticek Svoboda)

Walter Brennan

(Prof. Stephen Novotny)

Anna Lee

(Masha Novotny)

Gene Lockhart

Dennis O'Keefe

Margaret Wycherly

(Ludmilla Novotny)

Nana Bryant

(Mrs. Hellie Novotny)

William Roy

Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

(Reinhard Heydrich)

Alexander Granach

(Gestapo Insp. Alois Gruber)

Tonio Selwart

(Chief of Gestapo Kurt Haas)

Jonathan Hale

Lionel Stander

Sarah Padden

(Mrs. Georgia Dvorak)

Edmund MacDonald

Byron Foulger

Virginia Farmer

Ludwig Donath

George Irving

James Bush

Arno Frey

(Camp Lieutenant Itnut)

Lester Sharpe

Arthur Loft

Reinhold Schünzel

(Gestapo Insp. Ritter)

Chester Conklin

(Cook (uncredited))

Claire McDowell

(Counterwoman (uncredited))

John Abbott

(Hostage (scenes deleted))

Louis Adlon

(Adjutant (uncredited))

Erville Alderson

(Liberal Official (uncredited))

Richard Alexander

(Slugger in Theater (uncredited))

Dwight Frye

Ralph Dunn

(Czech Policeman (uncredited))

Bud Jamison

(Fat Man (uncredited))

Philip Van Zandt

(Officer (uncredited))

Sam Harris

(Man at Briefing (uncredited))