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A fictionalized account of the assassination of SS officer Reinhard Heydrich and the brutal Nazi reprisals which followed, that included the total distruction of Lidice, Czechoslovakia and the massacre of civilians including 82 children. Released in 1943. (a.k.a. "Hitler's Hangman") BACKGROUND: SS-Obergruppenfuher Reinhard Heydrich was the one-time head of the Gestapo and a chief planner of the Holocaust. As the time of his assassination he was the (Deputy) Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (Western Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic). TRIVIA: This film was produced by the "poverty row" studio PRC. However prior to its release it was bought by MGM and additional scenes added including one with Ava Gardner. Prior to the war its director Douglas Sirk briefly met Heydrick at a party in Germany. CAST NOTE: Ava Gardner's 10th uncredited feature film role. It took a while to discover she was more than a pretty face
Subjects
movie trailers; war dramas; WW2; Lidice; Reindard Heydrich; war crimes; Patricia Morison; John Carradine; Alan Curtis; Howard Freeman; Ralph Morgan; Edgar Kennedy; Ava Gardner (uncredited)
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