Word: hangmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holiday, which will take him to Vienna, Graz, northern Italy and (reportedly) to Nürnberg in time to officiate should Nazi leaders be hanged: Albert ("Yungg Alber"*) Pierrepoint, Britain's Senior Hangman. In Vienna, Pierrepoint will hang eight murderers and rapists, a refresher course for Austrian hangmen (conservative Austrian methods cause hanged men to struggle 20 minutes before dying; the progressive Pierrepoint system kills them almost at once). After his European tour, Hangman Pierrepoint plans to retire and to devote himself to his recently acquired Lancashire pub (name: "Help the Poor Struggler") and to chicken farming...
...Hangmen Also Die (United Artists) is another in a long line of inside-Occupied-Europe melodramas, tailored according to a pat Hollywood formula: murder, intrigue, brutal beatings, black villains, hair-raising escapes and love-under-difficulties. Although Director Fritz Lang gives this familiar material occasional touches of distinction, the picture still misses Grade A rank...
...killing of Hitler's Hangman Reinhard Heydrich by the Czecho-Slovakian underground is the springboard from which Hangmen's characters take their dives. These include a shrewd Gestapo inspector (Alexander Granach) who makes it very tough for Prague's patriotic citizens to hide Heydrich's killer, one Dr. Svoboda (Brian Donlevy); a venerable professor (Walter Brennan) who gives his life to thwart the dastardly inspector; the professor's pretty daughter (Anna Lee) who gives her reputation-to throw the inspector off the scent, she lets herself be discovered in Dr. Svoboda's bedroom...
...Kentucky and harvested for seed last year. For processing the hemp into badly needed ships' rope the Department of Agriculture is financing the construction of 71 midwest factories. Hemp was a big U.S. staple even before the Revolution, was used for homespun garments, twine, sacking, rigging, cables, hangmen's nooses. But foreign competition half century ago killed U.S. hemp production. Now Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard has listed it as a vital war crop...
...which called imprisoned Eivind Berggrav "more than ever our Bishop and spiritual leader," .roundly declared: "A fight is on, a deadly fight between irreconcilable opponents, between Christians and barbarians, a fight for everything which we love and cherish, against brutality and lawlessness, a fight which will make the Nazi hangmen tremble. . . . The fight of the Norwegian Church is Norway's fight, for the whole of Norway is united behind the Church...