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Auction History Result 3g366 HITLER'S MADMAN one-sheet '43 John Carradine, wild artwork of giant hand terrorizing girls! Date Sold 1/1/2009 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded One-Sheet Movie Poster (1sh; measures 27" x 41") (Learn More) Hitler's Madman (also released as "Hitler's Hangman"), the 1943 Douglas Sirk World War II (WWII) anti-Nazi Czech Resistance propaganda melodrama ("Sensational!"; written, in part, by Edgar Ulmer; about how the Nazis marched into a specific city in Czechoslovakia, and installed a brutal psychopath as the Reich Protector, and how many Czech citizens want to remain neutral, but the Nazis close the schools and round up the pretty women to become prostitutes, and when a Resistance fighter assassinates the Reich Protector, the Nazis burn the entire city including all its inhabitants; it was intended to inflame U.S. audiences and to tell them that they needed to fight to the very end!) starring Patricia Morison, John Carradine (as Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich), Alan Curtis, Ralph Morgan, Ludwig Stossel, Howard Freeman, Ava Gardner (in an early uncredited role), and Tully Marshall. Note that this exact same story was also told in 1943 by Fritz Lang, in his "Hangmen Must Die", with Hans Heinrich von Twardowsk as Reinhard Heydrich. Also, this was produced by Producers Releasing Corporation (a "poverty row" studio) but distributed by MGM NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Condition: good to very good. There is an ink pad stamp on the back of the poster that bleeds through in the yellow background at right. There is some separation and small paper loss along the foldlines. There is a small tear in the finger at right that has been repaired with tape from the back. Learn More about condition grades 
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