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Compulsion is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Fleischer released in USA on 1 april 1959 with Orson Welles
Compulsion (1959)
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Add to a movie listCompulsion is a 1959 American crime drama film directed by Richard Fleischer. The film is based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Meyer Levin, which in turn was a fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb murder trial. It was the first film produced by Richard D. Zanuck.
Although the principal roles are played by Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman, top billing went to Orson Welles, who does not appear in the film's first hour.
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Artie Strauss and Judd Steiner (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 inadvertently leaves at the scene of the crime. Famed attorney Jonathan Wilk (Orson Welles) takes their case, saving them from hanging by making an impassioned closing argument against capital punishment.Actors
Orson Welles
(Jonathan Wilk)
Diane Varsi
(Ruth Evans)
Dean Stockwell
(Judd Steiner)
Bradford Dillman
(Arthur A. Straus)
E. G. Marshall
(District Attorney Harold Horn)
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