Mayerling (movie)
- User score: 5.5
- Production country: US
- Producer: Anatole Litvak , Kirk Browning
- Production companies: Showcase Productions
- Genre: TV Movie, Romance, War, History
- Budget: $500
- Release date: 2/4/1957
- Run time: 85 min.
Movie description
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.
