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Name: Compulsion
Released: 1959-5-13
Cast: Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall

Compulsion

NR
1h 45m
1959

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Compulsion, a psychological courtroom drama, is one re-tellings of the 1924 Leopold and Loeb killings. Artie Straus is the sadistic leader of the duo, and Judd Steiner is Straus' introverted counterpart. Both boys consider themselves above conventional structures of morality. Exercising their feelings of superiority, the two students decide to kill a young boy.

Director:

Richard Fleischer

Producer:

Richard D. Zanuck

Writer:

Richard Murphy

Cast:

Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall, Martin Milner

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

100%

Reviews

The New Leader

Manny Farber

Compulsion has surprising power, the feeling of a new intellectualism being poured into the handsomely mounted "liberal" juggernauts Sam Goldwyn once produced.

Somewhat detached in its handling of emotional tensions, this smooth screen treatment of Meyer Levin's book nonetheless generates its own sort of cobra-like hypnosis.

Black-and-white classic about the Leopold-Loeb murder case.

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Atlantic City Weekly

Lori Hoffman

First great 'thrill killer' movie

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Film Threat