Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

Name: Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
Director: Errol Morris
Released: 1999
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Fred A. Leuchter Jr., Robert Jan Van Pelt, David Irving, Caroline Leuchter, James Roth

1999 · 91 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 5,867 VOTES · DIR. Errol Morris

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Overview

A portrait of the life and career of the infamous American execution device designer Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Mr. Leuchter was an engineer who became an expert on execution devices and was later hired by holocaust revisionist historian Ernst Zundel to "prove" that there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz. Leuchter published a controversial report confirming Zundel's position, which ultimately ruined his own career. Most of the footage is of Leuchter, working in and around execution facilities or chipping away at the walls of Auschwitz, but Morris also interviews various historians, associates, and neighbors.

Dialogue Timeline — 172 lines

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01:13:58 I was appalled to learn that much of what I was taught in school...

01:14:35 Whether he belonged to a group beforehand...

01:15:03 a responsibility to the truth.

01:15:41 In Latvia, in Hungary

01:16:06 detoxify a poison planet.

01:16:36 [ Leuchter ] I have no question that it's a conspiracy.

01:17:11 Did Adolf Hitler have a diploma in national socialism?

01:17:40 I was told that the deputy attorney general, Fred Silverman

01:18:04 They did not pay me...

01:18:39 because I was the one that was selling it.

01:19:02 to sell a lethal injection machine to anybody.

01:19:38 I told him that he could give his speeches, he could do whatever he wanted

01:20:10 The gas and electric was being shut off. And that was how he left.

01:20:52 Then you find you got this super-size doorknob on your knob so you can't get the key in

01:21:38 I frankly am surprised he didn't go and commit suicide, jump under a train.

01:22:14 He came from nowhere, and he went back to nowhere.

01:22:57 But that's got nothing to do with them being Jewish.

01:23:26 makes me a revisionist, then so be it.

01:24:28 Or do you think that you could make a mistake? No, I'm past that.

01:24:56 to substantiate and prove the existence of the gas chambers, and I was unable to.

01:26:27 Some ten or twelve years later, he was executed in that same chair...

01:27:09 So, maybe the legend got turned around

Cast & Characters

Fred A. Leuchter Jr. Self Robert Jan Van Pelt Self David Irving Self Caroline Leuchter Self James Roth Self - Analytical Chemist Shelly Shapiro Self Suzanne Tabasky Self Ernst Zündel Self David Collins Re-enactment cast Daniel Polsby Re-enactment cast

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed172

Dialogue density1.9 lines / min

First line01:13:58

Final line01:27:09

Production Record

DirectorErrol Morris

LanguageEnglish

Revenue$507,941

IMDb votes5,867