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Mayerling (1957)

Mayerling (1957)

Romance History War TV Movie
Release Date: 1957, February 4
Directors: Anatole Litvak, Kirk Browning
Production: Showcase Productions, Showcase Productions
Cast: David Atkinson, Judith Evelyn, Nancy Marchand, Ian Wolfe, Francis Compton, Nehemiah Persoff, Audrey Hepburn, Laurinda Barrett, Monique van Vooren, Iggie Wolfington, John McGovern, Isobel Elsom

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.