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Compulsion

Name: Compulsion
Rating: 4.33
Cast: Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall

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1 avril 1959 19 members

THEIRS WAS THE PERFECT CRIME they thought! They were too sure...too smart...too careful to leave a clue -- but they did! and it exploded -- The shocking story of two teenagers out for kicks...looking for thrills...and finding them!

Two close friends kidnap and murder a young boy and are defended in court by a renowned attorney who makes an impassioned plea against capital punishment.

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Director Richard Fleischer
Script Richard Murphy
Runtime 1 hour 43 minutes
Genres Crime, Drama
Language English
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Actors (14)

District Attorney Harold Horn

Mrs. Straus aka 'Mumsy'

Gavin MacLeod

Padua - Horn's Assistant

Edward Binns

Tom Daly

Colin Kenny

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

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A brilliant performance by a young Dean Stockwell (though not his first, as he was a famous child actor), this true crime film sticks fairly closely to the real story of Leopold and Loeb, though they changed the names. As a fan of true crime from an early age, I grew up on these stories, and love it when filmmakers stick to the facts :D