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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
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Brian DonlevyDr. Franticek Svoboda
Walter BrennanProf. Stephen Novotny
Anna LeeMasha Novotny
Gene LockhartEmil Czaka
Dennis O'KeefeJan Horak
Margaret WycherlyLudmilla Novotny
Nana BryantMrs. Hellie Novotny
William RoyBoda Novotny
Hans Heinrich von TwardowskiReinhard Heydrich
Alexander GranachGestapo Insp. Alois Gruber
Tonio SelwartChief of Gestapo Kurt Haas
Jonathan HaleDedicExplore the crew
- Producer
- Fritz Lang
- Producer
- Arnold Pressburger
- Director
- Fritz Lang
- Screenplay
- John Wexley
- Director of Photography
- James Wong Howe
- Editor
- Gene Fowler Jr.