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NOV
25
2008
Hangmen Also Die! (1943)
This seldom seen movie is brought to us by Kino Video, a public domain publisher who brings good quality pressings of old black and white movies.
A part of their Film Noir collection, Hangmen Also Die! tells the story of the assassination of Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, the Butcher of Prague, also called The Hangman, as the title indicates.
Heydrich was one of Adolf Hitler's top followers who was known for his excessive brutality. Hitler had appointed Heydrich in 1941 to govern Bohemia and Moravia, the parts of Czechoslovakia that had been annexed by Nazi Germany...read full review »