Compulsion (1959)

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Written by Meyer Levin, Richard Murphy

Directed by Richard Fleischer

Running Time: 100 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1959

Rating: PG Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Black and White

Thriller based on the real-life case of Leopold and Loeb, the law students who murdered a young boy in the 1920s for the purposes of proving their higher intelligence. Orson Welles plays their lawyer in this story which was also the basis for Alfred Hitchock's movie Rope.

When is Compulsion next on TV?

In the UK... it's next showing on Sky Movies Classics December 3rd, 3:15pm. See more...

Cast

Martin Milner
Image for E.G. MarshallE.G. Marshall
Diane Varsi
Orson Welles
Bradford Dillman
Dean Stockwell

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