Richard Basehart delivers an incendiary performance as history's most notorious madman in this searing expose of the private life of Adolf Hitler. A semi-factual account of the Fuehrer's rise and fall this rarely seen film follows Hitler's political career from the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 to his suicide in a Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. Inspired by a 1959 interview with a woman who claimed to be his lover Hitler mixes historical fact with the theory that impotence and an Oedipal complex fueled the Fuehrer's psychotic quest for power. Costarring John Banner (Hogan's Heroes) and Cordula Trantow in a Golden Globe nominated* performance as the Fuehrer's beloved niece Geli Hitler was the final film directed by Stuart Heisler whose career spawned hits in a wide range of genres including mystery (The Glass Key) comedy (Along Came Jones) musicals (Blue Skies) and drama (Storm Warning).
Director: Stuart Heisler
Producer: E. Charles Straus
Actor: Richard Basehart
Actor: Cordula Trantow
Actor: Maria Emo
Actor: Martin Kosleck
Actor: William Sargent
Actor: Narda Onyx
Actor: Gregory Gay
Actor: Theodore Marcuse
Actor: Berry Kroeger
Actor: Lester Fletcher
Actor: Celia Lovsky
Actor: John Banner
Actor: Martin Brandt
Actor: John Wengraf
Actor: Rick Traeger
Actor: John Mitchum
Actor: Albert Szabo
Actor: G. Stanley Jones
Actor: Walter Kohler
Actor: Carl Esmond
Actor: Norbert Schiller
Actor: Ted Knight
Actor: Willy Kaufman
Actor: Sirry Steffen
Actor: John Siegfried
Actor: Otto Reichow