TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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!

mark.waltz Real monsters really existed, and while Dracula, Bluebeard and all those mad doctors were nefarious, none were as evil as the Nazi leader he plays here, thriving on the misery of the Czech's in this quaint village. No non-Nazi escapes from his inhumane treatment, and with pleasure, he has a priest shot, drives a young girl to suicide (and then mocks her choice for freedom), and sends innocent men to the Russian front. But like others in occupied Europe, the people stand up and take matters into their own hands. As history has shown, the Nazi's won many battles, but ultimately lost the war and their immortal souls.As I scream "Die, Nazi, die!" one more time at a viewing of this as the villains get what they deserve (wishing it was nastier and slow and painful), this elaborate propaganda film shows the atrocities. Filmed by the low budget PRC but released by MGM's B unit to give it bigger build- up, this has so much going for it. Future Broadway legend Patricia Morison is a fine young heroine who refuses to back down from teaching youngsters the Czech national anthem, while Ralph Morgan is outstanding as her father who takes things into his hands.Ludwig Stossel, a Nazi victim in "All Through the Night" plays a traitor to his own people and pays for his crimes against humanity. The legendary dramatic stage actress Blanche Yurka has several key scenes as a town matron, but is surprisingly unbilled. Every role is cast perfectly, and the technical achievements are brilliant as well. As directed by a young Douglas Sirk, this ranks as one of the great world war II anti-Nazi films that reminds us that the fascists of the world will pay one way or another, yet the world never seems to learn that lesson.

dbdumonteil Although it was overshadowed by Lang's "Hangmen also die" , "Hitler's madman" seems closer to Borzage's "the mortal storm" ,with its depiction of life in an occupied town.But the finale was probably borrowed from Abel Gance's "J'accuse" (1919 and 1937) and its "wake of the dead" sequences.Great sequences: the professor of philosophy resuming his lecture in front of the Nazis (there is a similar sequence in "the mortal storm");the female student,refusing to be treated as a beast ;the admirable scene where the mayor's wife,reading that her sons are dead, and cursing the "Fuhrer" (a famous lullaby the name of which I cannot remember ,makes a very moving score, as she remembers her boys' childhood).The hangman, in his bed and begging for morphine,as he too realizes that the Third Reich means nothing when you're dying.Probably Sirk's best forties film .In the fifties,he would come back to WW2 and the Nazi barbarity with a work I consider his masterpiece : "A time to love and a time to die" (1958),from the great German pacifist writer Erich Maria Remarque's novel.