assassination of Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket (Frank R. Benson) in 1170, based on the play by Tennyson Rupert of Hentzau – 1923 film by Victor Heerman in which the King of Ruritania (Bert Lytell) is assassinated (but not his look-alike, as in the novel by Anthony Hope) – also, earlier 1916 version with Henry Ainley The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln – 1924 film by Phil Rosen depicts the career and the assassination of President Lincoln (George A. Billings) by a famous tragedian (William F. Moran) in 1865 Die Nibelungen: Siegfried – 1924 German film by Fritz Lang about the hero Siegfried and his assassination by the Burgundian Hagen, based on the c. 1200 epic poem The Nibelungenlied Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache – 1924 German sequel by Fritz Lang in which Kriemhild, avenging her husband Siegfried, kills Hagen in a plot involving her second husband, Hunnish King Etzel Wallenstein, 2. Teil – Wallensteins Tod – 1925 German film by Rolf Randolf in which Wallenstein (Fritz Greiner), supreme Habsburg commander during the Thirty Years' War, is murdered in 1634 by an English captain under his command, at the insistence of the Emperor Ben-Hur – 1925 film by Fred Niblo in which a Jewish nobleman is sentenced to the galleys after a perceived assassination attempt on Valerius Gratus, the Roman Procurator of Judea Napoléon – 1927 French film by Abel Gance, about the early career of Napoleon Bonaparte (Albert Dieudonné), includes the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat (Antonin Artaud) in 1793 Das Schicksal derer von Habsburg (The Fate of the von Habsburgs) – 1928 German film by Rolf Raffé about the assassinations of "Sissi", Queen Empress of Austro-Hungary (Erna Morena) in 1898, and Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in 1914 1930s Abraham Lincoln – 1930 film by D.W. Griffith about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln (Walter Huston) Rasputin and the Empress – 1932 film by Richard Boleslawski about the murdered monk, Rasputin (Lionel Barrymore) Scarface – 1932 film by Howard Hawks about a gangster (Paul Muni), based on Al Capone, includes incidents based on the murders of James Colosimo in 1920, Dion O'Banion in 1924, and the Saint Valentine's Day massacre in 1929 Hans Westmar – 1933 banned German propaganda film by Franz Wenzler about a murdered stormtrooper, based on the life of Nazi martyr Horst Wessel, immortalized by the Nazi Party anthem "Die Fahne hoch" The Man Who Dared