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Crime of the Century full movie is released on Sep 14, 1996. Watch Crime of the Century online - the English Crime movie from United States. Crime of the Century is directed by Mark Rydell and created by Ludovic Kennedy with Stephen Rea and Isabella Rossellini.
In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation against Hauptmann, the trial, and the execution, painting a picture of a corrupt police force under pressure to finger a killer framing an innocent man by manufacturing evidence, paying-off and blackmailing witnesses, and covering up exculpatory evidence.