This is the 1975 TV movie starring Elizabeth Montgomery
Lizzie who ?
by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 14, 2024 12:15 AM |
Lezzy
by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 14, 2024 12:19 AM |
R1 thank you for catching that.
Lizzy BORDEN
I wonder if they were related to Borden dairy people.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 14, 2024 12:35 AM |
Lizzie knew how to set boundaries.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 14, 2024 1:05 AM |
Elizabeth Montgomery did make a very pretty Lizzie.
"The Legend of Lizzie Borden" scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. The severe high-necked black dress, the crazy look in Montgomery's eyes, the axe, the nursery rhyme. Eek!
If the real Lizzie Borden looked like Elizabeth Montgomery and was straight she would gave married out of that house and away from Andrew and Abby and would not have had to go to the trouble of axing two people to death in order to get her hands on some money.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 14, 2024 1:13 AM |
Lizzie used a hatchet, r5.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 14, 2024 1:28 AM |
The Christina Ricci mini-series was much better.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 14, 2024 1:31 AM |
I have not seen the Elizabeth Montgomery movie, but I LOVED Christina Ricci's version.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 14, 2024 1:32 AM |
Lizzie did not commit the murders.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 14, 2024 1:34 AM |
Lizzie had the talking stick. They should have followed the rules.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 14, 2024 1:41 AM |
This movie was the sensation of my Catholic high school when it was shown. Samantha Stevens going nude to kill her parents, with hints of incest and necrophilia, was too much for a teenager of my time to accept. Elizabeth Montgomery was so wonderful, and let's not forget Fionnula Flanagan, who was later so great in 'The Others'. I re-watched the entire movie from OP's link, so thank you.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 14, 2024 1:53 AM |
So good, I remember watching it on ABC when it first aired.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 14, 2024 2:04 AM |
It was the talk of the playground 🛝 at my elementary school 🏫. I believe the consensus was that it was “neat-o!”
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 14, 2024 2:32 AM |
This was shot to be a regular movie to be shown in theaters… but the producers knew it wouldn’t make its money back and cut their losses by selling it to TV.
It was shown in theaters overseas, I believe with some more nudity. I don’t know how it did.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 14, 2024 2:36 AM |
Watched it when I was 11 - it was creepy, but not as scary as “Frankenstein The True Story” with Michael Sarrazin.
I was convinced the resurrected, amputated arm was lurking at the foot of my bed, and slept in a fetal position so it couldn’t “get m”e for a few weeks.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 14, 2024 3:11 AM |
Montgomery and Katherine Helmond each deserved an Emmy for their performances. But the Television Academy couldn't figure that out.
BTW, these days the house is still intact, run as a very expensive B&B in a city which has seen better days. Don't expect the cozy 'New England neighborhood' if you should decide to vacation there - across the street from the house is the back of the bus station, and a lot of vagrants hang around outside the terminal.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 14, 2024 3:11 AM |
[quote]r17 the house is still intact, run as a very expensive B&B … across the street from the house is the back of the bus station, and a lot of vagrants hang around outside the terminal.
“Touched by a Hobo” opportunities!
by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 14, 2024 4:38 AM |
This movie and the V movie are the most talked about at school the next day movies that I remember.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 14, 2024 3:16 PM |
Gloria Stuart from TITANIC has a line of dialogue in this.
She sees Lizzie steal an axe from the general store.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 14, 2024 4:25 PM |
Is it pretty much taken for granted now that she did it?
by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 14, 2024 5:58 PM |
R10 Lizzie had the motive and the opportunity.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 14, 2024 6:10 PM |
I was molested.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | October 14, 2024 6:15 PM |
Tell me about it.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 14, 2024 6:18 PM |
There was a documentary on I think TLC that refuted many things about the case. The Bordens were very well off and they gave their daughters a lot of money. The stepmother, considered a wicked stepmother according to folklore, tried very hard to become close to the girls, but they simply gave her the cold shoulder. The maid Bridgette almost certainly did not have a lesbian relationship with Lizzie. Lizzie was also said to have had a history of killing pets as a young girl.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 14, 2024 6:37 PM |
At my school, Trilogy of Terror got a lot of buzz as well. We weren't intellectual philistines, however. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman had everyone toddling to the drinking fountain the next day in commemoration of Cicely Tyson's powerful triumph over segregation.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 14, 2024 8:18 PM |
I remember watching this as a kid. It freaked me the hell out to see that cute witch house wife turn into a violent axe murderer.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 14, 2024 8:20 PM |
I stole the door knobs from the courthouse.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 14, 2024 8:22 PM |
[quote]R21 Is it pretty much taken for granted now that she did it?
Not completely. But one can make a good argument.
I like this podcast, which interviews different true crime authors:
by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 14, 2024 9:31 PM |
Everyone suspected the success of this movie (I believe it was the #1 television movie of the 1974-75 Season) and the praise Montgomery got for her dramatic performance convinced Montgomery she would never do comedy again - and she never did. She was taken seriously as a dramatic actress, and continued with the praise and ratings success for the nexttwo decades (though she took much of the 80s off due to her first diagnosis / treatment of colon cancer).
She went from a 60's novelty TV comedy to a serious dramatic actress with great ease - something not many actors can do. (Though Sally Field followed suit shortly after).
by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 14, 2024 11:32 PM |
I still dream about what Dynasty would have been if she had accepted the role of Krystal Carrington.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 15, 2024 12:41 AM |
Can't you just see her going head-to-head with Joan Collins as 'Alexis' in her 'Lizzie Borden' character ? It would have been delicious.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 15, 2024 12:45 AM |
I would have rather seen her have a shot at playing Alexis though
by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 15, 2024 12:46 AM |
Liz was offered the Colbys too. Either Frankie or Sable. She would’ve made a hell of a Sable. Liz excelled at playing good AND bad witches lol. But she didn’t want to commit to another series. She was also rumored to have been offered a 10 episode arc on Falcon Crest that never came to pass.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 15, 2024 1:01 AM |
[quote]She was also rumored to have been offered a 10 episode arc on Falcon Crest that never came to pass.
It ALMOST came to pass - Montgomery was working with the writers and producers on creating the character for her; if the ratings were good enough she would return as a regular the following season. Her story was to start during February sweeps in 1987.
Unfortunately, that was when she got her first colon cancer diagnosis, and the producers of FC had to switch gears - Montgomery wasn't going to be joining after all. And that is when her partner, Robert Foxworth, asked the producers of FC to let him out of his contract at the end of the 1986-87 season, so he could take care of Montgomery while she was battling the illness. They obliged - he was killed off (the series ran another four years). Montogmery did beat it (temporarily) and returned to TV movies by the end of the decade. The cancer returned in March, 1995 - and she died two months later.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 15, 2024 1:11 AM |
Montgomery was never going to go back to the grind of a weekly series. Especially an hour long drama where she was arguably the lead character. The only thing she did wrong was stinging along the network and producers for so long acting like she was truly considering and would probably do it and creating some hard feelings.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | October 15, 2024 1:12 AM |
Isn't "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte" the most awkward movie title to pronounce? Only bested by "The Rural Juror."
by Anonymous | reply 38 | October 15, 2024 1:19 AM |
She wasn't going to be the lead character (Jane Wyman was at the time) and she did want to work with Foxworth if they created the right character for her. She wasn't going to carry the show (as she did with 'Bewitched') so working on a weekly show was going to be different than the last time.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 15, 2024 1:23 AM |
I was talking about her starring in Dynasty.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 15, 2024 1:26 AM |
Just about anyone other than that drippy Linda Evans would have made a better Krystal.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | October 15, 2024 1:47 AM |
r21 No
by Anonymous | reply 43 | October 15, 2024 2:41 AM |
Lizzy Borden took an ax and gave her father 40 whacks.
When she saw what she had done, she gave her mother 41.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | October 15, 2024 8:17 AM |
If I were not a LADY, MRS. Borden, I'd twist your arm right out of its Socket!
by Anonymous | reply 45 | October 15, 2024 8:46 AM |
Ha! Ha! I remember watching this with my mom when I was a little girl. My mom looked liked Elizabeth Montgomery, too. Lol, we were both shocked when she killed her parents while naked! I watched it on YouTube about 2 years ago, and still liked it. She was good as Lizzie Borden. Her poor sister, though. Omg, what a movie for that time.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | October 15, 2024 9:18 AM |
I've only ever seen the edited version where Elizabeth's nudity is suggested and not shown.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | October 15, 2024 10:48 AM |
With all the viewing choices today it's hard to explain to younger people the hype a good program could get. Shitty ones too. This TV movie was really the first one I remember as a shared experience with just about everyone.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | October 15, 2024 2:43 PM |
Elizabeth Montgomery and Lizzie Borden were 6th cousins, once removed. Liz never knew this; it was revealed after she died.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | October 15, 2024 5:47 PM |