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Dedicated respectfully to The Hangmen of England and to similar Constitutional Bulwarks everywhere. posted by Christopher Walken in advice, books, crime | * | 12 comments comments
A Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution! | clusterflock 2009
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The titular hangwoman, a fifteen-year-old girl, enrolls in the Central Academy for Hangmen and masters the fine art of execution.
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Mr. Lang's loathing of Nazism fueled a quartet of thrillers: "Man Hunt" 1941, "Hangmen Also Die!"
Fritz Lang's Western Union Kristin M. Jones 2011
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“He was later able to obtain the picture immediately upon its completion and had a private showing of it for me and the interested Agents in the case, and it was very enlightening, inasmuch as the influence of other Communist associates of LANG can be very clearly seen in the picture, the title of which is ‘Hangmen Also Die.’”
Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010
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Donald Rayfield in Stalin and His Hangmen says that Stalin, a voracious reader, had a ‘naive and even weird’ interpretation of fiction.
The Volokh Conspiracy » What Five Works of Fiction Best Explain the 20th Century? 2009
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Dedicated respectfully to The Hangmen of England and to similar Constitutional Bulwarks everywhere.
A Short Introduction to the Fine Art of Execution! | clusterflock 2009
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The titular hangwoman, a fifteen-year-old girl, enrolls in the Central Academy for Hangmen and masters the fine art of execution.
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Wexley was also responsible for two of the most powerful antifascist dramas produced in Hollywood: Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939), directed by Anatole Litvak, and Hangmen Also Die (1943), written in collaboration with Bertolt Brecht and directed by Fritz Lang, both European refugees from fascism.
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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“Accordingly this Tyrant's Executioners laid hold of the King, stretch'd him out at length upon the ground naked, and pour'd boiling Rosin upon his Belly; besides this, they put his feet into a Fire, having fasten'd his Neck to a Stake fix'd in the ground with two of these Hangmen held him by the Arms.”
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Justices, and Hangmen at home, and to keep up an Appearance of our being govern'd like other Nations.
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