The Legend of Lizzie Borden

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The Legend of Lizzie Borden (10-Feb-1975)

Writer: William Bast

Keywords: Drama

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Bonnie Bartlett Actor 20-Jun-1929 Ellen Craig on St. Elsewhere

John Beal Actor 13-Aug-1909 26-Apr-1997 The Little Minister

Fionnuala Flanagan Actor 10-Dec-1941 James Joyce's Women

Ed Flanders Actor 29-Dec-1934 22-Feb-1995 Dr. Westphall on St. Elsewhere

Katherine Helmond Actor 5-Jul-1928 Jessica Tate on Soap

Elizabeth Montgomery Actor 15-Apr-1933 18-May-1995 Samantha on Bewitched

Don Porter Actor 24-Sep-1912 11-Feb-1997 Prof. Lawrence on Gidget

Hayden Rorke Actor 23-Oct-1910 19-Aug-1987 Dr. Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie

Gloria Stuart Actor 4-Jul-1910 The old lady in Titanic

Fritz Weaver Actor 19-Jan-1926 Fail Safe

REVIEWS

Review by anonymous (posted on 28-Jun-2006)

[movie] The Legend of Lizzie Borden (10-Feb-1975) I saw this movie on television when I was young and I never forgot it since! A few years ago I saw this movie again and even then it was a very good movie in my opinion. There are several very frightening scenes in this movie that will haunt you. Very good acting of Elizabeth Montgomery as Lizzie Borden and also a very good movie. Rob Trum Eindhoven The Netherlands

Review by Capvideo (posted on 27-Jun-2005)

Very interesting take on the old rhyme

"Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
And when she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one."

The blows weren't as numerous in real-life as the rhyme indicates, for as was disclosed during the trial by her principal attorney, George D. Robinson:

"Inspection of the victims discloses that Mrs. Borden had been slain by the use of some sharp and terrible instrument, inflicting upon her head eighteen blows, thirteen of them crushing through the skull; and below stairs, lying upon the sofa, was Mr. Borden's dead and mutilated body, with eleven strokes upon the head, four of them crushing the skull."

The movie was fairly graphic for it's time, AND considering that it WAS a Made For TV Movie, it had several "nude" scenes of Ms. Montgomery. It also left us, as in real life, wondering if she really did it... she was acquited, found not guilty, and noone else was ever arrested or stood trial for the horrendous crime. Good Movie!

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