I saw this today for the first time on TCM TV. This is an apocryphal version of the assassination of the Nazi leader and Czech "protector" Reinhard Heydrich by resistance fighter in World War II. The assassin evades the widening Nazi dragnet in Czechoslovakia even to the point of self-sacrifice. The Nazis plan to provide an "assassin" who is actually a Czech traitor, played admirably by Gene Lockhart. Brian Donlevy plays Dr. Svoboda aka Karel Vansky and Anna Lee is Nasha Novotna with Dennis O'Keefe her fiance as Jan Horak. Many old movie oldtimers are in this film, and the intensity builds up to immense pitch. Some say this is all propoaganda by Hollywood, but lest we forget, it could happen here. I notice lately TCM and AMC TV are playing a great deal of the old WW II movies.
Review of Hangmen Also Die!
