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Hangmen Also Die! (1943) More at IMDbPro »

• The original titles for the project were "No Surrender" and "Never Surrender" They had to choose a new title because a book was published with a similar title during production. Producers held a contest among the cast and crew to choose a new title. A production secretary submitted the winning title and won $100.
  
  
• Originally, Bertolt Brecht was denied story credit by the Screen Writer's Guild, even though he worked closely with writer John Wexley on the project.
  
  
• The idea for the film was inspired by the assassination of Gestapo official Reinhard Heydrich by Czech guerrillas and the subsequent reprisals taken by Nazi occupation forces.
  
  
• French censorship visa : # 5465.
  
  
• During the McCarthy era this was one the films labeled "subversive" by the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Commission) on the suspicion that it contained dialog that might be construed as pro-communist. Writer John Wexley was even "blacklisted". It wasn't seen again in the United States until the mid-'70s.
  
  
• Two cast members have played characters involved with the sale of real estate to the Vampire based on Bram Stoker's novel. Alexander Granach appeared as Knock, the House Broker in 'F. W. Murnau''s "Nosferatu". Dwight Frye appeared as Renfield in Tod Browning's "Dracula".
  
  

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