Hitler's Madman (1943)
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Hitler's Madman is based on an all-too-real wartime atrocity. John Carradine portrays Heydrich, the vicious SS officer put in charge of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Heydrich is killed by the Czech underground, prompting the Nazis to plan a horrible retaliation. The Gestapo selects the Czech village of Lidice for annihilation: They kill all the male villagers, throw the women and children into concentration camps, and torch Lidice into nonexistence. The victims of Nazi tyranny become martyrs to the underground cause, ending the film on a note of triumph. Based on a narrative poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Hitler's Madman was produced by the "poverty row" PRC studio, but was sold to MGM and given a class-A presentation at choice theatres throughout the U.S. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Patricia Morison - Jarmila
- Alan Curtis - Karel
- Ralph Morgan - Hanka
- Ludwig Stossel - Mayor Bauer
- Elizabeth Russell - Maria Bartonek
- Blanche Yurka - Mrs. Hank
- Victor Kilian - Janek
- Wolfgang Zilzer - Colonel
- Budd Buster - Conductor
- Frances Rafferty - Eliza Cormak
- Richard Talmadge - Chauffeur
- Sam Waagenaar - Sentry
- Chet Brandenburg - Linesman
- Lester Dorr - Sergeant
- Ava Gardner - Katy Chotnik
- John Carradine - Heydrich
- Howard Freeman - Himmler
- Edgar Kennedy - Nepomuk
- Al Shean - Priest
- Jimmy Conlin - Dvorak
- Jorja Rollins - Clara Janek
- Johanna Hofer - Mrs. Bauer
- Tully Marshall - Professor
- Lionel Royce - Capt. Kleist
- Betty Jaynes
- Natalie Draper - Julia Petschek
- Ernst Hausman
- Celia Travers - Nurse
- Dennis Moore - Orderly
- Director(s):
- Douglas Sirk
- Writer(s):
- Melvin Levy, Peretz Hirshbein, Doris Malloy
- Producer(s):
- Seymour Nebenzal
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