A movie with an interesting background is set for release at Christmas - titled "All the Money in the World." It involves the family of J. Paul Getty, an oil baron of the last century. It seems his teenage grandson was kidnapped in Italy in 1973 and the culprits demanded $17 million in ransom which the old man refused to pay. They held the boy for five months during negotiations eventually cutting off his ear and mailing it to a Rome newspaper to prove their point. Eventually, the lad was released for $3million. The background drama to making this film was that Kevin Spacey was replaced by Christopher Plummer, age 88 with little time for splicing. The basic story called to mind O. Henry's "The ransom of red chief" but in that the kidnapped boy drove his captors crazy and they paid the parents to take back their son. Getty III wasn't so lucky in Italy.
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