Hitler's Madman (1943)
June 10, 1943Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Patricia Morison
Jarmilla Hanka
John Carradine
Reinhardt Heydrich
Alan Curtis
Karel Vavra
Howard Freeman
Heinrich Himmler
Ralph Morgan
Jan Hanka
Douglas Sirk
Director
Edgar Kennedy
Nepomuk - the Hermit
Ludwig Stössel
Herman Bauer, bugomaster
Emil Ludwig
Writer
Albrecht Joseph
Writer
Al Shean
Father Cemlanek
Elizabeth Russell
Maria Bartonek - Anton's Wife
Peretz Hirschbein
Writer
Jimmy Conlin
Dvorak - the Shopkeeper
Melvin Levy
Writer
Ava Gardner
Franciska Pritric (uncredited)
Doris Malloy
Writer
Jorja Curtright
Clara Janek
Natalie Draper
Julia Petschek
Vicky Lane
Student
Blanche Yurka
Frau Anna Hanka
Frank Hagney
Engineer (uncredited)
Victor Kilian
Janek
Emmett Lynn
Germak (uncredited)
Frances Rafferty
Annaliese Cermak (uncredited)
Roger Moore
Prisoner (uncredited)
Eugen Schüfftan
Director of Photography
Edgar G. Ulmer
Production Design / Writer
Seymour Nebenzal
Producer
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Music
Dan Milner
Editor
Jack Greenhalgh
Director of Photography
Fred Preble
Art Direction
Karl Hajos
Music
Bart Lytton
Novel
Nathaniel Shilkret
Music
Edward Willens
Art Direction
Rudolf S. Joseph
Associate Producer
John Merton
Wolfgang Zilzer
Lester Dorr
Peter van Eyck
Laurie Lane
Fred Nurney
Richard Nichols
Betty Jean Nichols
Richard Bailey
Nellie Anderson
Sigfrid Tor
Celia Travers
Richard Talmadge
Hans Schumm
Richard Ryen
Lionel Royce
Betty Jaynes
Johanna Hofer
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 10, 1943
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 24m
Content RatingNR
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Wiki.
Hitler's Madman is a 1943 World War II drama directed by Douglas Sirk. It is a fictionalized account of the 1942 assassination of Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich and the resulting Lidice massacre, which the Germans committed as revenge. The film stars Patricia Morison and Alan Curtis and features John Carradine as Reinhard Heydrich. Sirk intended the film to function more as a documentary, but after Louis B. Mayer acquired the film in February 1943, he required reshoots to increase the drama. According to TCM, “Added material included Heydrich's deathbed scene with "Himmler" and university scenes featuring M-G-M starlets, including Ava Gardner.”Hitler's Madman was Sirk's first American production after fleeing Nazi Germany and abandoning his German name of Detlef Sierck. The screenplay was written by Peretz Hirschbein, Melvin Levy, and Doris Malloy, from a story by Bart Lytton, with some uncredited contributions by Edgar G. Ulmer.