Details

Release year: 1943

Storyline

Story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi SS commander, by Czech partisans and the reprisals inflicted by the Nazis on the Czechs.

Top credits

Directors

Douglas Sirk

Writers

Cast

Patricia Morison — Jarmilla Hanka
John Carradine — Reinhardt Heydrich
Alan Curtis — Karel Vavra
Howard Freeman — Heinrich Himmler

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Did you know

• While in Germany before the war, director Douglas Sirk met Reinhard Heydrich at a party, and later recalled that "he made my blood run cold."

• Although this film was originally filmed by poverty-row studio Producers Releasing Corp. (PRC), the word got out in Hollywood that the picture was far and away the best thing PRC had ever done; MGM executives got a look at it - including Louis B. Mayer, were suitably impressed, bought it from PRC, added a few scenes for increased dramatic effect, and it was released as an MGM picture.

• The footage with Ava Gardner, Frances Rafferty and Leatrice Joy Gilbert was shot by MGM and inserted into the film after it was purchased from PRC.