Mayerling
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer, Raymond Massey, Basil Sydney, Diana Wynyard
Writer: Claude Anet, Irma von Cube, Andrew McCullough
Release Date:
February 4, 1957
February 4, 1957
Ratings:
5.5 / 10
5.5 / 10
Director:
Anatole Litvak & Kirk Browning
Anatole Litvak & Kirk Browning
Companies:
Showcase Productions
Showcase Productions
Overview
Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.
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