Stephen Rea credited as playing...
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
- Bruno Richard Hauptmann: [while visiting him in jail, referring to their infant son] how's boobie"? Every night about seven, I kiss to sleep good night. he goes to sleep like a good boy?
- Anna Hauptmann: yes, like a good boy
- Bruno Richard Hauptmann: kiss him for me
- Anna Hauptmann: every night. Should I bring him to see you?
- Bruno Richard Hauptmann: no, I don't want him to see this place
- Bruno Richard Hauptmann: [points to head, points to his heart] he is here, he is here
- Anna Hauptmann: there is something I have to ask you. I know what your answer will be but I have to ask you anyway
- Bruno Richard Hauptmann: ask me anything
- Anna Hauptmann: a newspaper, The Evening Journal has offered us money: but lot of money. You know everyone thinks you are guilty and are waiting for your "confession"
- Bruno Richard Hauptmann: [confused] they want to buy my "confession"?
- Anna Hauptmann: yes
- Bruno Richard Hauptmann: how much?
- Anna Hauptmann: ninety thousand dollars. I told them "How could he confess to a crime he did not commit?"
- Bruno Richard Hauptmann: [sighs] you could live off that for the rest of your life. Maybe I should make up something for them? I will do it, if that's what you want
- Anna Hauptmann: the killing of a baby, how could we live off that? they have their police, they have their courts, their prisons, and all we have is the truth. Richard, what should I tell them?
- Bruno Richard Hauptmann: tell them to print the truth. We charge them nothing: the truth comes free
- Governor Harold Hoffman: [meeting privately in Hauptmann's cell] I have a proposition to make you. I've made a kind of "deal" with David Wilentz: the Attorney General. The state is now willing to commute your commute your death sentence
- Bruno Richard Hauptmann: [confused] "commute?" What is that?
- Governor Harold Hoffman: they'll change it to a lesser sentence...
- Bruno Richard Hauptmann: [interrupts him, relieved] I knew it
- Governor Harold Hoffman: to a lesser sentence of life in prison. On one condition: that you make a full statement of the part you played in the crime and a complete and unreserved confession
- Bruno Richard Hauptmann: [saddened] I told you
- Governor Harold Hoffman: any confession, however small. So long as it is an admission of guilt. I'm sorry, that's the deal: it's the best I can get
- Bruno Richard Hauptmann: how can I make this confession? What have I to confess?
- Governor Harold Hoffman: that's for you to decide
- Bruno Richard Hauptmann: [walks closer to him] I thought you believed me, I thought you were the only one
- Governor Harold Hoffman: I'm sorry. I wish I had the power to do more but I don't, do you understand that?
- Bruno Richard Hauptmann: [tearfully] so, to "save" myself, I must "condemn" myself
- Governor Harold Hoffman: [nods] yes sir. It's about the way it is