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Hangmen Also Die! (1943) on 15 april 1943
, 2h14Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Arno Frey, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart
Rating73%
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda (Brian Donlevy), a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski), but his getaway car is discovered and therefore his planned safe house must reject him. When a woman he doesn't know, named Mascha (Anna Lee), deliberately misdirects German soldiers close to finding him, he seeks her home as an alternative safe house. This turns out to be the home of her father, history professor Stephen Novotny (Walter Brennan), whom the Nazis have banned from teaching. This plan works. But because the assassin now can't be found, the Nazi leaders in Prague decide to create an incentive for him to turn himself in or for others to do so. They arrange–with the help of fifth-columnist Emil Czaka (Gene Lockhart), a wealthy brewer–for 400 citizens, including Professor Novotny, to be executed, forty at a time, until the assassin is named. Through a complex series of events, however, the resistance manages to frame Czaka himself for the murder, but not before the Nazis have executed many of the hostages.
Taxi, Mister (1943) on 16 april 1943
, 46minutesDirected by Kurt Neumann
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors William Bendix, Grace Bradley, Joe Sawyer, Sheldon Leonard, Jack Norton, Frank Faylen
Rating64%
This script must be run from the command line
Rhythm of the Islands (1943) on 16 april 1943
Directed by Roy William Neill
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Jane Frazee, Allan Jones, Andy Devine, Ernest Truex, Marjorie Gateson, Mary Wickes
Rating51%
Two ambitious guys from Brooklyn, Tommy Jones and Eddie Dolan, get the idea of buying a tropical island in the South Pacific to exploit as a tourist paradise. They go there and start rounding up customers on the beach, to bring to native shows they set up with the help of the locals.
Santa Fe Scouts (1943) on 15 april 1943
, 55minutesDirected by Howard Bretherton
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Bob Steele, Tom Tyler, Jimmie Dodd, Lois Collier, John James, Tom Chatterton
Rating70%
Une loi donnant des droits aux squatters est sur le point d'être votée. Un avocat veut en profiter pour s'emparer de la propriété de Tim Clay en raison de la source qui s'y trouve, et le fait accuser de meurtre, puis coupe l'approvisionnement en eau de la vallée. Les trois mesquiteers enquêtent pour trouver des preuves, puis entrent en action.
Desert Victory (1943) on 13 april 1943
, 1hDirected by Roy Boulting, David MacDonald
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Documentary
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Rating63%
Flight for Freedom (1943) on 14 april 1943
, 1h42Directed by Lothar Mendes
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Herbert Marshall, Eduardo Ciannelli, Walter Kingsford, Hugh Beaumont
Rating59%
Tonie Carter (Rosalind Russell) is a well-known aviatrix who is fighting the prejudice against women pilots in the aviation establishment of the 1930s. One of her rivals, pilot Randy Britton (Fred MacMurray), is attracted to her. After setting flight records, Tonie embarks on a solo circumnavigation of the globe.