History Film / TheLegendOfLizzieBorden

** The film also portrays Lizzie having an extremely confrontational and antagonistic relationship with Abby Borden, while her sister Emma mostly acts passively towards her, but according to historical record, it was the other way around.

* KickTheDog: Andrew decapitates Lizzie's pet pigeons just to spite her.

* Hosea's wife starts getting a bit feminist, and he replies, "I've never heard you talk like this. [[TheSuffragette Next you'll be asking for the vote.]]"

* ChristmasCake: Unlike other dramatizations that portray Lizzie as a PsychoLesbian, here she appears as a frustrated woman who missed the narrow Victorian "marriage window" due to her father's stinginess and negative reputation around town.

* ChristmasCake: Unlike other dramatizations that portray Lizzie as a PsychoLesbian, here she appears as a woman who missed the Victorian "marriage window" due to her father's stinginess and negative reputation around town.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: We briefly see a sign reading "Irish Keep Out" in a store window. In another scene, Hosea's wife starts getting a bit feminist, and he replies, "I've never heard you talk like this. [[TheSuffragette Next you'll be asking for the vote.]]"

* ScrewThisIAmOutOfHere: Bridget promptly quits and leaves Fall River after the inquest.

* SelfMadeOrphan: Lizzie is put on trial for the murders of her father and stepmother.

* SympatheticMurderer: Lizzie's potential notives are greatly emphasized in this dramatization, painting her in a particularly sympathetic light.

* GilliganCut: When Bridget testifies that she never saw any arguments at the Borden household, it immediately cuts to a flashback of Bridget witnessing a particularly ugly argument between Lizzie, Andrew, and Abby.

''The Legend of Lizzie Borden'' originally aired on {{Creator/ABC}} on February 10, 1975. It is perhaps most famous for being the first movie that portrayed Lizzie committing the murders in the nude. Lizzie herself is played by Creator/ElizabethMontgomery, who incidentally was Lizzie's sixth cousins once removed. This is a coincidence, by the way, as their familial connection wasn't discovered until after Montgomery's death.

* FullFrontalAssault: Lizzie commits the murder in the nude so that she won't get incriminating blood stains on her clothes. This theory had circulated as rumor since at least the 1930s, but it was this movie that popularized it. Despite using this trope, the film keeps in the fact that Lizzie was suspected in part because she had burned a dress that might have had blood stains on it, playing it as a RedHerring.

* FullFrontalAssault: While the film did not invent the notion that Lizzie committed the murders while naked, the theory having circulated as rumor since the 1930s at least, it certainly popularized it. Despite this, the film keeps in the fact that Lizzie was suspected in part because she had burned a dress that might have had blood stains, playing it as a RedHerring.