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The Legend of Lizzie Borden is a american film of genre Drama directed by Paul Wendkos released in USA on 10 february 1975 with Elizabeth Montgomery
The Legend of Lizzie Borden (1975)
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Add to a movie listThe Legend of Lizzie Borden is a 1975 American television movie. It premiered on ABC on February 10, 1975. The film starred Elizabeth Montgomery as accused murderer Lizzie Borden, along with Katherine Helmond, Fritz Weaver, and Hayden Rorke.
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The film, although based on fact, is a stylized retelling of the events of August 4, 1892 when the father and step-mother of New England spinster Lizzie Andrew Borden were found brutally murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. The subsequent incarceration of the prime suspect (Lizzie herself) as well as the coroner's inquest and trial are largely faithfully depicted, using actual testimony. In what may be seen as deviation from the film's docudrama narrative, as Lizzie hears her verdict, flashbacks are shown of her actually committing the murders in the nude and bathing after each death, thus explaining why no blood was ever found on her or her clothes; however, it is left ambiguous whether Lizzie was actually reminiscing about the crimes or simply fantasizing how she herself would have disposed of her victims. The film ends after Lizzie's acquittal with Lizzie's sister Emma asking her point-blank if she killed their parents; Lizzie does not answer. The epilogue states that the killings of Andrew and Abby Borden remained unsolved.Actors
Elizabeth Montgomery
(Lizzie Borden)
Katherine Helmond
(Emma Borden)
Ed Flanders
(Hosea Knowlton)
Fionnula Flanagan
(Bridget Sullivan)
Don Porter
(George Robinson)
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