"The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case" (1976) - Anthony Hopkins as Bruno Hauptmann 

I agree ☝️

I don’t know why. He’s the same in every film he makes.

He plays this role very well, very authentic!

And thank you for sharing that tidbit

I think he is an over rated actor in every thing he does.

@@smartychase He received his second Emmy Award for his portrayal of Adolph Hitler in the CBS television movie The Bunker.

Keep that to yourself n your not positive.

Especially heartbreaking for Mrs. Lindbergh after she discovered that her pathetic jerk as a husband killed their son for having a disability 😎

First five minutes in I was thinking how abysmal the acting is!

He was 38 when this was filmed in 1976.

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@@dolldoll2914 He was 29 when this movie was filmed during the summer of 1967.Excellent film.He broke his arm during filming when he fell of a horse. His first American made for tv movie was QVII-1974.I was 18.I have followed his career ever since.

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Lindbergh was a monster

Even so, legally the miscreant was guilty as charged. But was the miscreant Bruno?

cliff deyoung

He was once in a LA rock band in the 60's. Clear Light.

He was in 'Sunshine'

Thankyou Marion for telling us he dies, that just spoilt watching it !!!!!.....💯❤

Of course Hopkins is a good actor…LOOK WHERE HE COMES FROM….

Have a hanky.

Watch Crime Of The Century

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@@livingintonguesTHERE IS NOTHING WEIRED ABOUT Anthony Hopkins ..Its called acting you fool….Grow up.

He played Richard the Lion-heart in the Lion in Winter. Circa 1967. Check out his previous roles.

Lindbergh was a supporter of Hitler who wanted to bring Nazism to America. His kid was taken by one of the German master race. How's that for an intersection of irony and karma?

While he was in jail some of the ransome $$ turned up in Newark,NJ and a month later some in Berlin Germany. Evidence shows it was the guy renting his garage loft that did the crime.

Out of curiosity, what proof do you have that Lindbergh ever met Josef Mengele?

Where can I find record of this conversation?

@@gotch09 I watched a documentary right here on RU-vid about Lindberrgh, and his family. It was about their lives AFTER they moved to Europe and what they they in Germany. There was actual taped footage of him meeting with Dr. Mengele and even Hitler. Seems Lingbergh was very racist and very much into genetics and the idea of a pure Aryan race. None of this ever came out in the USA. I was shocked to discover this myself. I also read it in a book, which I no longer have in my possession, the title escapes me, sorry.

@@maureenogorman8740 I actually watched a documentaly about Lindbergh and his family living in Europe and their activities, and see my comment below. But he did meet both Dr. Menegle and Adoph Hitler. He even gave money to their "Aryan research projects" to develope a perfect race. This is when he discused with Dr. Menegele the death of his son, whom he said off hand, was not genetically perfect, while his wife was still mourning the death, he was not. He did not want to try again, until he was sure they could have a pure child. It was tape shot in black and white, the record of the meeting, and spliced into a documentary about the Lindberghs, a different angle on their lives. Yes, I was shocked. It has been a while since I saw this documentary. I remember I saw it on RU-vid several years ago. I also read it in a book I had on The German Reich. I no longer have the book, sorry.

@@michellereed5638 ....Lindbergh said in the documentary you cite that he "didn't want to try again until he could be sure they'd have a pure child?" That's interesting considering the fact that at the time of the baby's kidnapping, Anne Morrow Lindbergh was already pregnant with their second child.

Sir Anthony is even better looking now!

People go mad in crowds and come to their senses one by one. This last three years has proved that, when we look back on this period in history humanity will be ashamed that we were so easily lead.

@@robertdore9592 from all i've read, he was. after all, it must have greatly weighed on him having become America's hero.

​@@mari-greciaodal2436 nonsense

@@irinewest5377 sweetheart, truly, I really don't care what you think. It appears that youtube seems to give freedom of expression to people like you. It shouldn't but maybe is something which loves sensationalism. And people like you will take advantage of it. therefore, rejoice in what point you're making. to me, it's just a mediocre expression. really, how boring!

Don’t trust Charles Lindbergh one iota!

I truly believe that he was innocent. Not just from this movie but from reading through the years.

@@victoriateague9012 I was convinced of his innocence after reading "Scapegoat" by Anthony Scaduto and "The Airman & the Carpenter" by Ludovic Kennedy.

Daddy did it because the boy was faulty.

Lindbergh was the killer. I truly believe that.

How about History based on Fiction?!...

Real life events

​@@JoseCruz-rj9cpHablo serio jovencito

Who killed the baby, wasn't it the father 2:26:53

If you could reconstruct that sentence grammatically I might be able to decode what you are asking. Subject -- verb -- make sure adjectives and adverbs modify what they are supposed to.

And that's because the "Planted evidence" he, Lindbergh, didn't want to be missed by the police!...

What about Mr Lindbergh NOT ripping that envelope open?

Bruno Hauptmann was the victim of a frame-up.

Hauptmann had the ransom money in his possession, initially lied about where he got it and then claimed it was given to him by a dead man. Does that sound believable to you?

@@andrewdavid5928 Hauptmann was entertaining friends when Isidore Fisch came to his apartment with the box of money. They testified to this at the trial, but weren't believed. It sounds believable to me because Hauptmann had business dealings with Fisch a few months after the kidnapping. Fisch was later discovered to be a con man and swindler. This information was suppressed by the prosecution.

@@Gwaithmir they were business partners so the box could have contained anything. When the police asked Hauptmann about the $20 gold certificate in his pocket when he was picked up he lied. Why would he do that if the money was honestly obtained?

@@andrewdavid5928 People were afraid of the police where he came from. He was probably also afraid, with good cause, that if the box contained hot money, the cops would take it away from him.

Obviously.

Read Anthony Scaduto's book, "Scapegoat." which is an excellent exposé of the Lindbergh kidnapping case.

CAN YOU TYPE LOUDER, COULDN’T HEAR YOU THE FIRST TIME

You mean like Oswald?

@jodyfresnack4758 I THINK THAT THE LAW AND MOST OF THE PUBLIC WAS OUT FOR A SCAPEGOAT AND HE SERVED THAT PURPOSE PERFECTLY!!

No, he was clearly guilty along with others.

Wouldn't doubt it.

There is no truth to this "thing you read," as you'll discover if you do a little bit of actual research.

+ Lindbergh used the "J" word in public, and sometimes in a non-adulatory context. No doubt a very bad guy, who absolutely and for sure murdered his own baby.

@@davidluck1678 bull

@@mauriceortiz8817 bull

Didn't Fisch die before Hauptmann was arrested?

@@kenjohn487 You are correct. He died of tuberculosis.

Why do you say Hauptmann was "likely innocent"?

I wonder if Anne Lindbergh ever suspected her husband of planning the kidnapping

They didn't extradite because he was DEAD. He died from TB while he was in Germany.

I thought I heard that the kidnapper fell as he carried Charlie out of the window the ladder flipped and he landed on the child, accidentally killing him, but the ransom plan went ahead. In that account, the LE and others had suspicions that Charles himself committed the act!

@@kathrynbillinghurst188 i believe it was Charles .

One of the rungs of the ladder used in the kidnapping was broken. It’s possible, I suppose, that the kidnapper was on the ladder when it broke and dropped the baby. It’s been one of the theories. It’s still murder because it happened during the commission of a capital crime

@@kathrynbillinghurst188 The man who fell on the baby wash Charles Lindbbergh. He wasn't downstairs reading a book. He was trying to pull a sadistic practical joke on the women. Arriving home he left his car 60 yards down the driveway, nailed together a crude ladder and climbed up to the baby's window. He took the baby in his arms, planning to put him in his car; Then, when he wormen were hysterical with fear and and grief, he intended to bring the baby forth and he could laugh at how he had scared them. The ladder broke and he fell on the baby, crushing and killing him. When he realized he had killed his son, he drove him to s ome woods two miles away. There he left the baby unburied. He then went home and asked how the baby was. The nurse went up and discovered the baby missing. Lindburgh then went up, and asked them to leave him there while he collected him- self. It was then that he wrote the ransom note, took it down- stairs and said he has discovered it. Several months later, a black man, a truckdriving deliver man, stopped at the woods. He walked into them to relieve himself and there he found the skeletal remains of the baby. Lindbergh was known for his mean tricks. I have thus far only seen a few minutes of the film so I don't know what it will portray. One thing is sure, it did not take a long time after the baby's body was discovered so close to home, before his wife, Anne Morrow, to suspect, then to realize, then to be certain that it was her husband Charles who had killed the baby. She by then certainly knew that her baby had not been kidnapped. Perhaps she may have confronted him, but by then they both understood that they could never reveal the truth. Bruno Hauptmann was completely innocent. The Governor of New Jersey, friend of Franklyn Roosevelt, confided in him that Hauptmann was innocent. By this time it was Lindbergh who was in complete control of the investigation. Hauptmann was convicted and sentenced to death. The Governor's political advisors also knew the truth, but none of them could make the knowledge public. The best the Governor could to was able to do was to give Hauptmann a 30 day stay of execution. His advisors warned him that he would destroy his political career and indeed it did, but he did it anyway. The Lindberghs excaped their public by moving to Europe. They were treated very well in Nazi Germany where he received medals from Adolph Hitler and Herman Goering. When they returned to the U.S. he went to see Roosevelt abd warned him not to give any more war materiel to England, that Hitler would soon have it. Then he joined some German political clubs and began making speeches about the great benefits of Naziism and Hitler. When he was criticized by the newspapers, he resigned his com- mission as a colonel in the Army Air Corps. He sent a letter to Roosevelt telling him that Hitler would soon own all of Europe and said that he resigned his commission to him too. All this time Roosevelt knew he had killed his sone an let an innocent man be burned to death in an electric chair and he wanted no part of him. After Hitler declared war on us a week after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Lindbergh volunteered his services to the army and wrote to Roosevelt once more, this time begging for his commission back, but the President didn't even acknowledge the letter. Four times in my life I vacationed in the beautiful town of Hana, Maui, and each time my wife and I drove the ten miles to the little Lutheran church where Lindbergh was buried. My wife was my lookout, for I intended there to piss on his grave. Each time I tried to pay my respects, tourists drove up and I could not. But I sure as hell wanted to. The man who fell on the baby wash Charles Lindbbergh. He wasn't downstairs reading a book. He was trying to pull a sadistic practical joke on the women. Arriving home he left his car 60 yards down the driveway, nailed together a crude ladder and climbed up to the baby's window. He took the baby in his arms, planning to put him in his car; The ladder broke and he fell on the baby, crushing and killing him. When he realized he had killed his son, he drove him to some woods two miles away. There he left the baby unburied. He then went home and asked how the baby was. The nurse went up and discovered the baby missing. Lindburgh then went up, and asked them to leave him there while he collected him- self. It was then that he wrote the ransom note, took it down- stairs and said he has discovered it. He was known for his mean tricks. I have thus far only seen a few minutes of the film so I don't know what it will portray. One thing is sure, it did not take a long time after the baby's body was discovered so close to home, before his wife, Anne Morrow, to suspect, then to realize, then to be certain that it was her husband Charles who had killed the baby. She by then certainly knew that her baby had not been kidnapped. Perhaps she may have confronted him, but by then they both understood that they could never reveal the truth. Bruno Hauptmann was completely innocent. The Governor of New Jersey, friend of Franklyn Roosevelt, confided in him that Hauptmann was innocent. By this time it was Lindbergh who was in complete control of the investigation. Hauptmann was convicted and sentenced to death. The Governor's political advisors also knew the truth, but none of them could make the knowledge public. The best the Governor could to was able to do was to give Hauptmann a 30 day stay of execution. His advisors warned him that he would destroy his political career and indeed it did, but he did it anyway. The Lindberghs excaped their public by moving to Europe. They were treated very well in Nazi Germany where he received medals from Adolph Hitler and Herman Goering. When they returned to the U.S. he went to see Roosevelt abd warned him not to give any more war materiel to England, that Hitler would soon have it. Then he joined some German political clubs and began making speeches about the great benefits of Naziism and Hitler. When he was criticized by the newspapers, he resigned his com- mission as a colonel in the Army Air Corps. He sent a letter to Roosevelt telling him that Hitler would soon own all of Europe and said that he resigned his commission to him too. All this time Roosevelt knew he had killed his sone an let an innocent man be burned to death in an electric chair and he wanted no part of him. After Hitler declared war on us a week after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Lindbergh volunteered his services to the army and wrote to Roosevelt once more, this time begging for his commission back, but the President didn't even acknowledge the letter. Four times in my life I vacationed in the beautiful town of Hana, Maui, and each time my wife and I drove the ten miles to the little Lutheran church where Lindbergh is buried. My wife was my lookout, for I intended there to piss on his grave. Each time I tried to pay my respects, tourists drove up and I could not. But I sure as hell wanted to.

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Edward Reilly was a top lawyer and certainly not " incompetent".

Educational film?

Kenneth I think he is Welsh :)

He's now an American citizen.

@@helenefrench4275 FYI Britain is a geographical term for the island of Great Britain, where England is located. However, they are not quite the same thing. While Britain can be used to mean England, it also refers to Wales and Scotland too. Not all British people are English and England doesn't cover the entirety of Britain. Hopkins was born in Wales and is therefore, Welsh which makes him British.

@Nybor Most people living in Wales would consider themselves as Welsh rather than English but you are right.

@@helenefrench4275 I did not say he was English I said he was Welsh so therefore British. All people who live in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well as the islands belonging to the UK are collectively British; but they are citizens of their own country first. I said that, can’t you comprehend. I wouldn’t think any Welsh citizen would call themselves English, EVER. by the way my last name is Jones if that helps.

The script is so horrible It’s an insult to our intelligence that they think this is what we deserve. Gunsmoke had better acting and scripts once a week for many years. Casting is bad too. Overacted by cliche actors.

Factual? BS

Acting in this is about as subtle as one of the worst B movies I’ve ever seen.

Not factual at all - the innocent Bruno Hauptman was framed!!

Lindbergh and his wife had one expression between them. To watch that you would not believe she even cared that her son was kidnapped and possibly dead. And Cliff de Young, who can be good, was a blank cipher. There were a few good secondary performance, notably David Spielberg as the prosecutor. But the principals were dreadful. I loathe actresses who simper, and this one always did. Hopkins put in a nuanced, understated performance but it is hardly one of his best.

Where is the evidence that "Lindbergh and the cops let Hauptmann be hung out to dry?" Hauptmann had some of the ransom money at his home. He had Dr. Condon's phone number written on the wall of a closet in his home. He quit his job the SAME DAY that Lindbergh paid the ransom. The wood to make the ladder came from wood in his garage. Hauptmann escaped from prison in Germany and fled to America, illegally. He robbed two women at gunpoint in Germany and broke into the mayor's house to rob him, using a ladder to enter via a second-story window. Sound familiar?

He made the ladder they used to kidnap the baby. He was guilty.

@@5rings16 that's an old wives tale poor Bruno may he rest in peace deserved a fair and impartial trial which he did not get the investigation with sorely deficient to say the least

@@travisfriedland9346 He was guilty, clearly.

@@5rings16 you most definitely was not guilty as I said the investigation by modern standards with sorely deficient

Herr Hauptmann maintained he was innocent because he was. If anything his guilt may have been peripheral, like the L.H. Oswald of the 60s, Bruno was the "Patsy" of the 30s...

Lindbergh was either playing a prank on his wife that went wrong or it was set up . The child had special needs and unfortunately Lindbergh was a eugenics buff with some weird ties and sick opinions. Look it up, some pretty compelling facts. He was quite odd

@@christopher9196 That's all true. Lindbergh was drawn to Nazism, though I would not go quite as far a s to call him a Nazi. But extreme, and rightwing, in his views. By the end of the war his reputation was in tatters. His wife -- who was little better but a lot smarter -- helped rehabilitate their reputations though some good writing. But he was never trusted indecent society again.

I think he was the victim of anti-German sentiment, but I also think the case against him is pretty strong.

Yes ,dirty politics .Iv,e watched many films about American justice .The press are horrific . The protesting lynch mobs are horrendous .The legal profession in America is about MONEY or POLITICS (in general ,I know there are a few sites where justice reigns but they are few and far ) Trump and American Media has whipped this up again . Education is hampered in Red states (keep ,em ignorant ) Glad to see that the youth of American Universites students are raising their heads .These young educated people will be the saving of America .Their votes are powerful .Taking back America .

it was solved.

Lol! It was solved! 🙄

Good point. 1 of the worst handled police investigations ever. Bunch of new facts out now. I read Lindbergh himself basically told the police what to do. True or not? 1 book had Lindbergh killing that poor kid himself. It's is true a lot of your heroes you do not want to personally meet them. Case is Unsolved to this day I feel. But after kidnapping appears Charles & Anne went there separate ways only appear to stay married for the media only. Proven fact Charlie had kids in Germany too. Where else who knows?

Where did you watch the 1996 version? Thank you.

@@GeeKneeMarie you're welcome. but the other version, so i thought, with Isabella Rossellini and Stephen Rhea is far more impactful than this Anthony Hopkins version is.

@@GeeKneeMarie also, in 1996 was filmed the version with Rea and Rossellini. the film i am certain I saw it here on youtube. see if it is still here. I believe it was a free-with-ads movie. Good luck. by the way. the film's name, "The Crime of the Century"

@@GeeKneeMarie Oh, I have just found that the 1996 version, is still here on youtube..Hope you enjoy it, Christina!

by the way, che, you should re-post your videos from long ago. They were art People should see them. This is what I do know. your muse was with you then and loved U!

That's just ridiculous & he sure didn't get over 14,000 gold dollars from the tooth fairy.

Oh please!

Lol!! I’ve NEVER heard or read that before! 🙄

I kind of thought that to

No it isnt'

It's generally accepted that you are dumb.

Actually, it really said, " Thou shalt not murder. "

yes and sinners are God's greatest witnesses. to take the potential for that away would not please God

It was open and shut that he did it. I believe that perhaps the baby died when Hauptmann accidently dropped him while going down the ladder.

@Dino please don't bother yourself

@Dino It wasn't just Biblical - it was Shakespearean English that at one time everyone spoke.

If you were going to commit a crime like that, what would you do? Would you stake out the house for awhile?

In the story. But that depends upon the shaky identification of Dr. Conden.

Decent people do not murder matter how dire their circumstance.

It’s not God’s job to protect from doing bad things on this earth. It’s called Free Will, dummy. God gave people the ability to act at one’s own discretion. YOU deal with the consequences.

Merci, Margaret, for one of the few sensible comments.

Say that prayer for Lindbergh's soul! After 90 years, we've learned the truth about just how evil he really was. He was a Nazi. He believed in eugenics, but his son had developmental issues and could barely stand/walk at 20 months, which was quickly becoming noticeable to his adoring public. It was a bone condition similar to rickets. Lindbergh could not/would not accept the "blemish" of a less than perfect child on his name, his "heritage", his persona or his fame. MANY visitors to the home told of how Lindbergh was delightfully cruel to the child, often throwing objects across the room to strike him and knock him over and laughing maniacally at the child's tears, humiliation and pain. What was once labeled a conspiracy theory has proven, after nearly a century, to more-than-likely be true... Lindbergh killed his own son, staged all the ransom stuff, had "evidence" planted and framed Bruno Hauptmann!! His extreme wealth, influence and popularity enabled him to get away with it. He paid off and bribed whomever he had to to make sure Bruno took the fall. If you do some sleuthing homework/research you'll find that almost everything pointing towards Bruno's guilt has been debunked, proven false or otherwise discredited over the years. Lindbergh was NOT a good man. He was NOT a hero. Neither sweet baby Charlie nor the innocent Mr Hauptmann deserved all the evilness & cruelty that was inflicted on them by the white-supremacist, sociopathic, narcissistic "Mr Lindy". May their eternal souls be restful, happy and at peace in the afterlife - while Lindy justly burns in Hell.

@@margaretnorvell9555 No, but uber-wealthy and narcissistic Nazis who believe in eugenics sure do! Especially those who are concerned that the whole world would soon discover that his own genes produced defective offspring. Hauptmann was framed. Lindbergh killed his own son and staged the rest! The TRUTH is finally coming out after nearly a century.

Well explained . Once your eyes are open and you are awake .. everything makes sense but scary

The bloodline. LMAO.

Oh but i think we do know the truth about many things but people will call you crazy or a conspiracy theorist

The truth is that Hauptmann killed this baby.

@@antonioacevedo5200 I’m not that sure. Maby Lindbergh himself had something to do with it. For me it’s stil a mystery. Easy to kill that man so there will be no evidence anymore. Anyway he had never a honest trial.

@@pierrebringmans4274 He was a carpenter. The wood from the ladder matched wood in his house. he was a criminal in his native Germany. There was too close a connection between him and the gold certificates. He is either the most unlucky person on Earth or he did it. In his defense, I don't think he purposely killed the baby, but I believe he was guilty.

@@antonioacevedo5200 maby just maby. Is it not strange that he couldn’t know that the baby was there. The exact room where the baby was. Normally the baby was not there. The public interest was so bigg they must find a suspect. So the most easy way is to put wood in his garage similar to the ladder. In 1934 was the police so sofisticate to determinate if peace’s of wood are similar? To many lose ends my friend. There is a other movie that maby shines a licht on it

Hauptmann's fingerprints were not found on the ladder.

They found marked bills -- hidden -- in his garage. I have seen an explanation in Crime of the Century (also on YT).

You want to see him young with some great acting on his part watch the movie "magic" he is fantastic in that role.

@@janicereed9422 thank you, I'll check it out 😃

No evidence of it. As if a piece of wood, which is already treated timber, only gives up two pieces of wood -- they would have been all over the place. Hardly surprising a carpenter has one.

There has never been a shred of evidence that Lindbergh was involved in his son's murder. More than 90 years later, there still isn't. Hauptmann had some of the ransom money in his home. He had Dr. Condon's phone number written on a wall in a closet of his home. He quit his job the VERY SAME DAY that Lindbergh paid the ransom. Hauptmann was on the run from the law in Germany and fled to America, illegally. He robbed two women at gunpoint in Germany and broke into the mayor's home to rob him, using a ladder to enter through a second-story window. Sound familiar?

It's an east coast colloquialism

@@aisle_of_view thank you. It's strange. 🙂

Do you often judge something before you see it? Does that explain Trump? Something well wrong with American education there.

@@VLind-uk6mb I am not american. I'm argentine.

Money was based on a gold standard back then. It was later changed to a silver standard, then to Federal Reserve Notes.