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Anthony Hopkins stars in this thrilling, fact-based dramatisation about the abduction of Charles Lindbergh Jr, the famous American pilot's two-year-old son, who was kidnapped and killed in 1932, regardless of a high ransom having been paid. The film focuses on the trial of the boy's alleged captor and murderer, Bruno Hauptmann (Hopkins).

Keywords:

Crime, Drama, Based-on-True-Story, Movie, Film, Movies, Films, Nazi

Additional Information:

(1976) (Made for TV) (USA) (3 Star)

Cast:

Cliff de Young	.... Charles Lindbergh
Anthony Hopkins	.... Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Denise Alexander	.... Violet Sharpe
Sian-Barbara Allen	.... Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Martin Balsam	.... Edward J. Reilly
Peter Donat	.... Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Supporting Cast:

John Fink	.... Mr. Anderson
Dean Jagger	.... Koehler
Laurence Luckinbill	.... Gov. Hal Hoffman
Frank Marth	.... Chief Harry Wolfe
Tony Roberts	.... Lt. Jim Finn
Robert Sampson	.... John Curtis
Katherine Woodville	.... Betty Gow
David Spielberg	.... David Wilentz
Joseph Stern	.... Dr. Schonfeld

Directors:

Buzz Kulik

Writers:

J.P. Miller