Compulsion (1959 film)

Compulsion 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.

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 Steiners 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.The film was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, where Dillman, Stockwell and Welles won the Best Actor Award. ........

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