Man Hunt (1941 film)
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Directed by | Fritz Lang |
Produced by | Kenneth Macgowan |
Written by | Geoffrey Household (novel) Dudley Nichols |
Starring | Walter Pidgeon |
Music by | Alfred Newman |
Cinematography | Arthur C. Miller |
Editing by | Allen McNeil |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
Release date(s) | June 13, 1941 |
Running time | 105 mins. |
Country | USA |
Language | English, German |
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Man Hunt is a 1941 thriller film directed by Fritz Lang.
It is based on the 1939 novel Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household and is set prior to the Second World War.
The key scene shows a British hunter on vacation in the Bavarian Alps in the forests near the Berghof, Adolf Hitler's home in the Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden, getting Hitler in his gun sight, pondering whether or not he should shoot him.
[edit] See also
- Rogue Male the 1976 BBC television version of Household's novel
- Operation Foxley, a British SOE plan to assassinate Hitler in 1944
[edit] External links
- Man Hunt at the Internet Movie Database
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