Hitler's Madman

Director: Douglas Sirk Douglas Sirk

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/01/2015
UPC:	0888574353971
Original Release:	1943
Source:	Warner Archives
Language:	English
Time:	1:24:00
Sales rank:	34,438

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Patricia Morison	Jarmila
Alan Curtis	Karel
John Carradine	Heydrich
Ava Gardner	Katy Chotnik
Ralph Morgan	Hanka
Howard Freeman	Himmler
Ludwig Stossel	Mayor Bauer
Edgar Kennedy	Nepomuk
Jimmy Conlin	Dvorak
Blanche Yurka	Mrs. Hanka
Jorja Rollins	Clara Janek
Al Shean	Priest
Elizabeth Russell	Maria
Victor Kilian	Janek
Johanna Hofer	Mrs. Bauer
Wolfgang Zilzer	Colonel
Chet Brandenburg	Linesman
Tully Marshall	Teacher
Frances Rafferty	Eliza Cormak
Natalie Draper	Julia Petschek
Betty Jaynes	Nurse
Celia Travers	Nurse
Lionel Royce	Capt. Kleist
Dennis Moore	Orderly
Lester Dorr	Sergeant
Budd Buster	Conductor
Richard Talmadge	Chauffeur
Chet Brandenberg	Linesman
Ernst Hausman	Sentry
Sam Waagenaar	Sentry

Technical Credits

Melvin Levy

Douglas Sirk	Director
Seymour Nebenzal	Producer
Melvin Levy	Screenwriter