Compulsion (film)
| Compulsion | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Richard Fleischer |
| Produced by | Richard D. Zanuck |
| Written by | Richard Murphy |
| Starring | Bradford Dillman Orson Welles Diane Varsi Dean Stockwell |
| Music by | Lionel Newman |
| Cinematography | William C. Mellor |
| Editing by | William H. Reynolds |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation |
| Release date(s) | 1959 |
| Running time | 103 mins/ 99 mins (FMC Library Print) |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Compulsion, directed by Richard Fleischer, was a film made in 1959, based on the 1956 novel Compulsion by Meyer Levin, which in turn was based on the Leopold and Loeb trial. It was the first film Richard D. Zanuck produced.
Plot
Artie Strauss and Judd Stiener (Bradford Dillman and Dean Stockwell) kill a boy on his way home from school in order to commit the "perfect crime". Strauss tries to cover it up, but they are caught when police find a key piece of evidence — Steiner's glasses, which he left at the scene of the crime. Famed attorney Jonathan Wilk (Orson Welles) takes their case, and saves them from the electric chair by making an impassioned closing argument against capital punishment.
Cast and Crew
- Orson Welles..........Jonathan Wilk
- Diane Varsi......Ruth Evans
- Dean Stockwell.....Judd Steiner
- Bradford Dillman....Artie Strauss
- E.G. Marshall......District Attorney Harold Horn
- Martin Milner.....Sid Brooks
- Richard Anderson.....Max Steiner
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