Filmed in 1943, when the outcome of the Second World War was still very much in doubt, Hangmen Also Die! is based loosely upon the assassination of a high-ranking German officer called Reinhard Heyrich, an event that took place only months before the movie was made. It concentrates on the Gestapo’s hunt for the assassin, Dr. Franticek Svoboda (Brian Donlevy), a physician working for the Czech resistance. Svoboda is on the run, and with the Nazis closing in fast he turns to Mascha Novtony (Anna Lee) for help, hiding out with her family until the evening’s curfew is over. But the Nazis will stop at nothing to find Heyrich’s killer, rounding up hundreds of Czech citizens including Mascha’s own father (Walter Brennan), and threatening to execute them if the assassin isn’t handed over. Meanwhile, the resistance have discovered that one of their members, the brewer Emil Czaka (Gene Lockhart), is covertly working with the
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