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edwagreen Dramatization regarding Lidice, Czechoslovakia and its fate following the death of Heydrich, Nazi-protector of the city.We find agricultural people, many of whom are apolitical and willing to lead their lives under Nazi rule.One man who had gone to England returns with others and their goals are for sabotage.John Carradine, as Heydrich, is the ruthless, outrageous leader who is willing to do anything to maintain strict order and control.One of the towns leading citizens shows his contempt when a priest is shot down during a town festival for violating group gatherings.Carradine, in his dying words, is not exactly flattering to the Nazi cause, but Himmler uses his assassination to speak of unspeakable horrors which befell the citizens of Lidice.The tension is constant as a people show their determination to show right from wrong in society.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** The second movie- The other "Hangmen also Die"- out of Hollywood in 1943 about the massacre of the people, Men 16 and over, of the Czech town of Lidice in the spring of 1942 by the Nazis. That in retaliation for the assassination of the country's Reich Protector Reinhard "Hangman" Heydrich, John Carradine, who was fatally injured-he died a few days later- by Czech resistant fighters lead by British based local boy Karel Vavra, Alan Curtis. Heydrich for his part was really asking for it in how he treated the local Czech population with total disrespect for their men, who more or less put up with it, and especially the women whom he treated like they were street hookers. Always trying to outdo himself and get the Czechs to hate him even more then they already do, if that's at all possible, Heydrich guns down the local priest Father Cemlanek, Al Shean, who mildly protested his actions against the Catholic Church. This action by the "Hangman" finally got the Czech population to wake up and plan to do Heyderich in the first chance they got to get a crack or shot at him. This was when he was driving through the countryside in his armor plated Mercedes totally unprotected by his Gestapo goons. As he's dying from his wounds from an ambush Heydrich is promised by his boss SS chief Heinrich Himmler,Howard Freeman,that he'll have the nearest Czech village-Lidice-to his assassin site wiped off the map to show the world that he means business.****SPOILERS**** We've seen it all before as well as since with the Germans acting like the movie calls them "Madmen" in wiping out the entire village of Lidice for the death of just one man whom almost all those in the tragic village had nothing at all to do with. As for the dying Heydrich he seems to have a vision of things to come, the complete defeat of Nazi Germany,by telling Himmler that he'll soon suffer, together with Hitler & Co., the same fate he's soon to suffer. As history showed Himmler was to kill himself less the three years later on May 23, 1945 by swallowing a vile of poison hidden in his mouth while in the custody of the British Army. P.S Check out a young 21 year old Ave Gardner as one of the young Czech women who were to be sent to the Russian Front by Hydreich to "entertain" the German troops!

RanchoTuVu An interesting movie that does not do much to inspire the viewer through its portrayal of the Czech resistance, though they face a grim ending, but definitely catches the interest in the portrayal of Nazi brutality through the part played by John Carradine as Reich Protector Heydrich, who routinely had people shot in order to maintain a level of fear and control. The characterizations of the townspeople are too quaint for this subject, but they (the townspeople) do catch on as Carradine's brutality increases, with the most memorable scene being when he and his men take over a philosophy class, in a scene that manages to get fairly intense. If it were just up to Alan Curtis to carry the film as Karel Vavra, the film would fall into a dark pit of boredom, since within any resistance movement there is always collaborators within families that need to be killed. Those characters are all left out, and so the drama quotient is not very intense. Nonetheless, Carradine's Heydrich is definitely worth watching.

TAYLOR BOWIE Although the history portrayed in this little cheapie is not 100% accurate, the power and style of the great director Douglas Sirk shines through all the way. Carradine's death-bed scene is superbly acted, photographed and directed, and the climax, propaganda or not, is unforgettable. It is well worth your time!