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… More 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, Rovi
- Directed By
- Douglas Sirk
- Written By
- Peretz Hirschbein, Albrecht Joseph
- Genres
- Drama
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Critic Reviews
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Inspired by true events, Douglas Sirk's first American film is a powerful tale of the Czech resistance in WWII, with John Carradine as the vicious Nazi commander.
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Michael E. Grost, Classic Film and Television
Intelligent, insightful, richly detailed anti-Nazi film, made by German refugees in Hollywood.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
A powerful historical film based on a real wartime atrocity.
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Cast
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Patricia Morison
as Jarmila
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John Carradine
as Heydrich
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Alan Curtis
as Karel
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Howard Freeman
as Himmler
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Ralph Morgan
as Hanka
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Edgar Kennedy
as Nepomuk
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Ludwig Stossel
as Mayor Bauer
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Al Shean
as Priest
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Elizabeth Russell
as Maria Bartonek
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Jimmy Conlin
as Dvorak
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Blanche Yurka
as Mrs. Hank
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Jorja Rollins
as Clara Janek
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Victor Kilian
as Janek
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Johanna Hofer
as Mrs. Bauer
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Wolfgang Zilzer
as Colonel
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Tully Marshall
as Professor
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Budd Buster
as Conductor
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Lester Dorr
as Sergeant
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Ava Gardner
as Katy Chotnik
- Betty Jaynes
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Dennis Moore
as Orderly
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Frances Rafferty
as Eliza Cormak
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Lionel Royce
as Capt. Kleist
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Celia Travers
as Nurse
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Richard Talmadge
as Chauffeur
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Chet Brandenburg
as Linesman
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Natalie Draper
as Julia Petschek
- Ernst Hausman
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Sam Waagenaar
as Sentry
