Man Hunt

original title:
Man Hunt
other titles:
(Menschenjagd)
country / year of production:
USA / 1941
original length:
105 min. , black/white
premiere:
13 June 1941 (USA)
genre:
Thriller
based on:
Geoffrey Household. Rogue Male. London: Chatto and Windus, 1939.
director:
Fritz Lang
film script:
Dudley Nichols
producer:
cinematographer:
Arthur C. Miller
editor:
Allen McNeil
composer:
cast (role):
Walter Davis Pidgeon (Captain Alan Thorndike) , Joan Bennett (Jerry Stokes) , George Sanders (Major Quive-Smith) , John Carradine (Mr. Jones) , Roddy McDowall (Vaner) , Walter Davis Pidgeon , Joan Bennett , George Sanders , John Carradine , Roddy McDowall
more:
plot synopsis:
Summer 1939: The british hunter Thorndike is hunting in the bavarian forests, when he suddenly is able to aim at Adolf Hitler. After initially aiming at him only jokingly, he decides to shoot, but is being captured by german soldiers and interrogated and tortured. The Nazis decide to kill him, but Thorndike luckily survives and escapes back to England, but german spys are able to trace him there and Thorndike has to flee again. Hiding in the wildernis, a spy is able to catch him there, but Thorndike is again able to defeat his follower. Then WW II breaks out and Thorndike decides to return to Germany as part of the army to finish what he had begun.
keywords:
assassination , espionage , escape , paratroopers , torture , captivity
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Klaus Brüne (Ed.). Das Lexikon des Internationalen Films, Band 5, S. 2565, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1987.
remarks:
In 1941, the movie was considered to be too one-sided and anti-nationalsocialistic and Fritz Lang was banned from the Editors Room. Yet, Fritz Lang managed to keep on cutting the film secretly without the knowledge of the actual editor.
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