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sixcyl ◊ 2006-10-20 08:28	Very famous film of Sydney Lumet, with a pleiad of very renowned actresses and actors... one of them, the so delicious J.Bisset: ..and the 5 stars "Orient-Express" Istanbul starting point of the journey Aircraft seen in this film at: http://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Murder_on_the_Orient_Express -- Last edit: 2010-12-15 19:45:23
jpts ◊ 2018-04-15 14:08	This film has an element that was based on the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's infant son, Charles "Lindy" Lindbergh Jr who was abducted from the crib of his room at the Lindbergh Family home at Highfields, New Jersey on the night of the 1st March 1932. In the kidnapping, the kidnapper left a poorly spelt note demanding a $50,000 ransom and asked the family not to notify the police or the media. As well as the note containing spelling errors, the note also had grammatical errors, at the bottom of the note was a symbol consisting of two blue circles interlocking surrounding a red circle and with two blue squiggle lines in each interlocking circle and three punch holes. When the kidnapping become public, five days after the kidnapping on the 6th March, a second note containing the same spelling and grammatical errors, and the same symbol arrived at the arrived at the Lindburgh Home, in the note, the writer had stated that the Lindbergh Family had disobeyed the instructions in the original note and increased the ransom from $50,000 to $70,000. The characters from that element of the story were based on those involved in the actual case: Daisy Armstrong - Based on Charles Lindbergh Jr, Known as Lindy, the infant son of Charles Sr and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, taken from the crib in the bedroom of the Lindbergh Family Home at Highfields near East Amwell, New Jersey on the night of the 1st March 1932. The ransom note was found on the window still along with a homemade letter under the window still, Lindy's body was found by truck driver, William Allen on the side of the road about 4½ miles (7.2 km) south of Highfields near Mount Rose in the Hopewell Township, New Jersey on the afternoon of the 12th May 1932. Colonel Hamish "John" Armstrong - Based on Charles Lindbergh, Former US Air Mail pilot, famed aviator and father of Lindy, was in the library of the home and the one who paid the ransom through a former teacher, John Condon, went into voluntary exile in Great Britain with his family in 1935 and made a visit to Germany from 1936 to 1938 to evaluate the German aviation and later visited the Soviet Union in 1938 to survey the Soviet aviation industry, later took part in bombing raids on Japanese positions in the Pacific during the Second World War in 1944, died of lymphoma at Kipahulu on the Hawaiian Island of Maui on the 26th August 1974. Sonia Armstrong - Based on Anne Lindbergh, Aviator, famed author, daughter of the US Ambassador to Mexico and former US Senator for the state of New Jersey, Dwight Morrow and the poet and author, Elizabeth Cutter, wife of Charles Lindbergh and mother of Lindy, was in the bathroom at the moment of the kidnapping, went into exile with Lindbergh Sr to Britain and France, later return to the US and took part in the anti-war organization, America First Committee until the Pearl Harbour Bombing and the German declaration of war on the US in December 1941, later wrote several books to help build the Lindbergh Family reputations after the War, died of pneumonia at her home on her son, Reeve Lindbergh's farm at Passumpsic, Vermont on the 7th February 2001. Paulette Michel - Based on Violet Sharpe, The British household servant in Anne Lindbergh's family home at Englewood, New Jersey, about 70 miles north of Highfields, was on a date with bus driver, Ernst Miller on the night of Lindy's kidnapping, later suspected of involvement in Lindy's kidnapping and murder and was heavy handily interrogated three times by the New Jersey State Police from the 10th March to the 9th June 1932, committed suicide by ingesting potassium cyanide at the Morrow Estate in Englewood, New Jersey on the 20th June 1932. The day after Sharpe's suicide on the 11th June 1932, Sharpe's date, Ernst Miller, came forward to the New Jersey State Police and stated that Miller met Sharpe and her sister, Emily on the Sunday before the kidnapping, and on the night of the kidnapping, Miller and a another couple, Katherine Minners and Elmer Johnson had picked up Violet Sharpe from the Morrow Estate at 8pm and drove the group to the Peanut Grill Bar at Orangeburg 82 miles (132km) north of Highfields, across the New Jersey-New York Stateline. The Manchester Guardian and the American Press later criticized the New Jersey State Police for their heavy-handed tactics used in Violet Sharpe's interrogations. Samuel Ratchett's Accomplice - Based on Bruno Hauptmann, Known as Richard Hauptmann, German carpenter and Lindy's alleged kidnapper and murderer, was named as the perpetrator after a garage attendant wrote down the number plate of Hauptmann's car (a Dodge sedan, bearing New York Registration plates, *4U-13-41) on the margin of a gold certificate (A $10 certificate bearing Serial Number, A73976634A) that was later recognized by a bank teller used as one of the gold certificates used in the ransom, later arrested on the 19th September 1934 by members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation after an attempt to flee, was later convicted of the kidnapping and murder and was executed by electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, New Jersey on the night of the 3rd April 1936. Samuel Ratchett -* Possibly based on John Knoll, German butcher and Hauptmann's alleged accomplice, was named as Hauptmann's accomplice by Knoll's former neighbour, Eugene Zorn after reading the case in a true crime magazine at a hairdresser's store in Dallas in December 1963. Zorn stated that in the Summer of 1931, Knoll had taken Zorn to the Palisades Amusement Park at Cliffside Park-Fort Lee, New Jersey, about 5 miles (8km) south of Anne Lindbergh's family home at Englewood, New Jersey where Knoll met his brother, Walter and another man who Zorn heard the Knolls referring the third man as "Bruno". Zorn then stated that he overheard the Knolls and Bruno talking about "Englewood" and after reading the article years after the Lindbergh Kidnapping and Murder believed that he overheard the Knolls and Bruno talking about planning to commit the Kidnapping. Mrs Hubbard - Based on Elizabeth Morrow, Author, poet, wife of the former senator of New Jersey and US Ambassador to Mexico, Dwight Morrow, mother of Ann Lindbergh and grandmother of Lindy, was at home at Englewood, New Jersey, later became the head of Smith College from 1939 to 1940, died on the 24th January 1955. Miss Ohlsson - Based on Bessie Goway, Known as Betty Gow, the Scottish nursemaid who worked the Lindbergh Family home, was at the Lindbergh home and was the one who discovered that Lindy was taken, returned to Scotland after the kidnapping and later returned to New Jersey in 1935 to testified against Hauptmann in his trial. -- Last edit: 2024-02-17 04:44:00
Jnglmpera ◊ 2022-04-10 13:07	Japanese reimagination: /movie.php?id=3973830

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◊ 2006-10-20 08:28

Very famous film of Sydney Lumet, with a pleiad of very renowned actresses and actors... one of them, the so delicious J.Bisset:

..and the 5 stars "Orient-Express"

Istanbul starting point of the journey

Aircraft seen in this film at:
http://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Murder_on_the_Orient_Express

-- Last edit: 2010-12-15 19:45:23

jpts

◊ 2018-04-15 14:08

This film has an element that was based on the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's infant son, Charles "Lindy" Lindbergh Jr who was abducted from the crib of his room at the Lindbergh Family home at Highfields, New Jersey on the night of the 1st March 1932.

In the kidnapping, the kidnapper left a poorly spelt note demanding a $50,000 ransom and asked the family not to notify the police or the media.

As well as the note containing spelling errors, the note also had grammatical errors, at the bottom of the note was a symbol consisting of two blue circles interlocking surrounding a red circle and with two blue squiggle lines in each interlocking circle and three punch holes.

When the kidnapping become public, five days after the kidnapping on the 6th March, a second note containing the same spelling and grammatical errors, and the same symbol arrived at the arrived at the Lindburgh Home, in the note, the writer had stated that the Lindbergh Family had disobeyed the instructions in the original note and increased the ransom from $50,000 to $70,000.

The characters from that element of the story were based on those involved in the actual case:

Daisy Armstrong - Based on Charles Lindbergh Jr, Known as Lindy, the infant son of Charles Sr and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, taken from the crib in the bedroom of the Lindbergh Family Home at Highfields near East Amwell, New Jersey on the night of the 1st March 1932.

The ransom note was found on the window still along with a homemade letter under the window still, Lindy's body was found by truck driver, William Allen on the side of the road about 4½ miles (7.2 km) south of Highfields near Mount Rose in the Hopewell Township, New Jersey on the afternoon of the 12th May 1932.

Colonel Hamish "John" Armstrong - Based on Charles Lindbergh, Former US Air Mail pilot, famed aviator and father of Lindy, was in the library of the home and the one who paid the ransom through a former teacher, John Condon, went into voluntary exile in Great Britain with his family in 1935 and made a visit to Germany from 1936 to 1938 to evaluate the German aviation and later visited the Soviet Union in 1938 to survey the Soviet aviation industry, later took part in bombing raids on Japanese positions in the Pacific during the Second World War in 1944, died of lymphoma at Kipahulu on the Hawaiian Island of Maui on the 26th August 1974.

Sonia Armstrong - Based on Anne Lindbergh, Aviator, famed author, daughter of the US Ambassador to Mexico and former US Senator for the state of New Jersey, Dwight Morrow and the poet and author, Elizabeth Cutter, wife of Charles Lindbergh and mother of Lindy, was in the bathroom at the moment of the kidnapping, went into exile with Lindbergh Sr to Britain and France, later return to the US and took part in the anti-war organization, America First Committee until the Pearl Harbour Bombing and the German declaration of war on the US in December 1941, later wrote several books to help build the Lindbergh Family reputations after the War, died of pneumonia at her home on her son, Reeve Lindbergh's farm at Passumpsic, Vermont on the 7th February 2001.

Paulette Michel - Based on Violet Sharpe, The British household servant in Anne Lindbergh's family home at Englewood, New Jersey, about 70 miles north of Highfields, was on a date with bus driver, Ernst Miller on the night of Lindy's kidnapping, later suspected of involvement in Lindy's kidnapping and murder and was heavy handily interrogated three times by the New Jersey State Police from the 10th March to the 9th June 1932, committed suicide by ingesting potassium cyanide at the Morrow Estate in Englewood, New Jersey on the 20th June 1932.

The day after Sharpe's suicide on the 11th June 1932, Sharpe's date, Ernst Miller, came forward to the New Jersey State Police and stated that Miller met Sharpe and her sister, Emily on the Sunday before the kidnapping, and on the night of the kidnapping, Miller and a another couple, Katherine Minners and Elmer Johnson had picked up Violet Sharpe from the Morrow Estate at 8pm and drove the group to the Peanut Grill Bar at Orangeburg 82 miles (132km) north of Highfields, across the New Jersey-New York Stateline.

The Manchester Guardian and the American Press later criticized the New Jersey State Police for their heavy-handed tactics used in Violet Sharpe's interrogations.

Samuel Ratchett's Accomplice - Based on Bruno Hauptmann, Known as Richard Hauptmann, German carpenter and Lindy's alleged kidnapper and murderer, was named as the perpetrator after a garage attendant wrote down the number plate of Hauptmann's car (a Dodge sedan, bearing New York Registration plates, 4U-13-41) on the margin of a gold certificate (A $10 certificate bearing Serial Number, A73976634A) that was later recognized by a bank teller used as one of the gold certificates used in the ransom, later arrested on the 19th September 1934 by members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation after an attempt to flee, was later convicted of the kidnapping and murder and was executed by electric chair at the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, New Jersey on the night of the 3rd April 1936.

Samuel Ratchett - Possibly based on John Knoll, German butcher and Hauptmann's alleged accomplice, was named as Hauptmann's accomplice by Knoll's former neighbour, Eugene Zorn after reading the case in a true crime magazine at a hairdresser's store in Dallas in December 1963.

Zorn stated that in the Summer of 1931, Knoll had taken Zorn to the Palisades Amusement Park at Cliffside Park-Fort Lee, New Jersey, about 5 miles (8km) south of Anne Lindbergh's family home at Englewood, New Jersey where Knoll met his brother, Walter and another man who Zorn heard the Knolls referring the third man as "Bruno".

Zorn then stated that he overheard the Knolls and Bruno talking about "Englewood" and after reading the article years after the Lindbergh Kidnapping and Murder believed that he overheard the Knolls and Bruno talking about planning to commit the Kidnapping.

Mrs Hubbard - Based on Elizabeth Morrow, Author, poet, wife of the former senator of New Jersey and US Ambassador to Mexico, Dwight Morrow, mother of Ann Lindbergh and grandmother of Lindy, was at home at Englewood, New Jersey, later became the head of Smith College from 1939 to 1940, died on the 24th January 1955.

Miss Ohlsson - Based on Bessie Goway, Known as Betty Gow, the Scottish nursemaid who worked the Lindbergh Family home, was at the Lindbergh home and was the one who discovered that Lindy was taken, returned to Scotland after the kidnapping and later returned to New Jersey in 1935 to testified against Hauptmann in his trial.

-- Last edit: 2024-02-17 04:44:00

Jnglmpera

◊ 2022-04-10 13:07

Japanese reimagination: /movie.php?id=3973830

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