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.
Released: Feb 04, 1957
Runtime: 85 minutes
Genre: TV Movie, Romance, War, History
Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer, Raymond Massey, Basil Sydney, Diana Wynyard, Judith Evelyn
Crew: Anatole Litvak (Director), Kirk Browning (Director), Andrew McCullough (Production Assistant), George Bassman (Original Music Composer), George Lawrence (Production Manager), Dorothy Jeakins (Costume Design)