LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING CASE, THE [2-disc] (TV) (1976 USA)
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Directed by Buzz Kulik
Starring: Cliff De Young, Anthony Hopkins, Denise Alexander, Martin Balsam, Tony Roberts
Genres: Biopics, Crime, Drama, Period Pieces, Kidnapping
148 minutes | Full Screen | Color | English
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, based on newspaper coverage, court testimony and eyewitness accounts, was dramatized for television by J.P. Miller. Cliff DeYoung and Sian star as Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The couple's 2-year-old son Charles Jr. is kidnapped from the family's Hopewell, New Jersey home on March 1, 1932; though the ransom is paid, the child's body is found a few days later. All circumstantial evidence points to German expatriate Bruno Richard Hauptmann (Anthony Hopkins) as the kidnapper/murderer. While never seriously challenging the notion of Hauptmann's guilt, the film raises several questions concerning the fairness of his trial. The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case first aired in a three-hour timeslot on Febrary 26, 1976.
