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Compulsion

Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case.

Director

Richard Fleischer

Year

Genre

biography, crime, drama

Box Office

N/A

Production

Darryl F. Zanuck Productions,20th Century Fox

Awards

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award1 win & 6 nominations total

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Jonathan Wilk

Ruth Evans

Judd Steiner

Arthur A. Straus

Bradford Dillman

District Attorney Harold Horn

Sid Brooks

Max Steiner

Richard Anderson

Police Lt. Johnson

Robert F. Simon

Tom Daly

Charles Straus

Mr. Steiner

Mrs. Straus aka 'Mumsy'

Padua - Horn's Assistant

Reporter

Reporter

Courtroom Spectator

Benson - The Angry Reporter

Edgar Llewellyn - Attorney

Juror

Arthur Berkeley

Courtroom Spectator

Albert - Steiner's Chauffeur

Reporter

Globe Newspaper Editor

Detective Davis

Courtroom Spectator

Juror

Courtroom Spectator

Courtroom Spectator

Courtroom Spectator

Courtroom Spectator

Herschel Graham

Jonas Kessler

Juror

Courtroom Spectator

Tough Waiter

Juror

Courtroom Spectator

Courtroom Spectator

Emma

Medical Examiner

Dr. Allwyn - Psychiatrist

Courtroom Spectator

Reporter

Courtroom Spectator

Courtroom Reporter

Ralph Montgomery

Waiter

William H. O'Brien

Judge Matthews

Voltaire Perkins

Cameraman

Reporter

Reporter

Professor McKinnon

Reporter

Juror

Courtroom Spectator

Reporter on Telephone

Detective Brown

Girlfriend

Reporter

Reporter

Courtroom Spectator

Juror

Reporter

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Jonathan Wilk Juror Arthur Straus Judd Steiner Professor Mckinnon Sid Brooks Medical Examiner Ruth Evans Mrs. Straus Aka 'mumsy'District Attorney Harold Horn Max Steiner Charles Straus Tom Daly Police Lt. Johnson

Professor McKinnon - Compulsion

Professor McKinnon

That's like talkin' to a Roman candle - Compulsion

That's like talkin' to a Roman candle

Have you got a phone I could use - Compulsion

Have you got a phone I could use

What's the matter - Compulsion

What's the matter

If we use Plato's system you see - Compulsion

If we use Plato's system you see

The neighborhood is swarming with kidnappers and degenerates - Compulsion

The neighborhood is swarming with kidnappers and degenerates

I'll do anything you say - Compulsion

I'll do anything you say

Pop Wiggen - Compulsion

It's the place where I discovered the Kirtland's warbler - Compulsion

It's the place where I discovered the Kirtland's...

He wants to take me out to Hegewisch Park - Compulsion

He wants to take me out to Hegewisch Park

If you were looking for a kid to kidnap - Compulsion

If you were looking for a kid to kidnap

We almost killed him - Compulsion

We almost killed him

Not tomorrow afternoon - Compulsion

Not tomorrow afternoon

Gonna take her birding Hegewisch - Compulsion

Gonna take her birding Hegewisch

What is it Judd - Compulsion

What is it Judd

What's one life - Compulsion

What's one life

Breath Quivering Murder's nothing - Compulsion

Breath Quivering Murder's nothing

Is there - Compulsion

Screaming Are you afraid of me - Compulsion

Screaming Are you afraid of me

You're sweating again - Compulsion

You're sweating again

They can't trace anything The whole case'll blow over in a couple of weeks - Compulsion

They can't trace anything The whole case'll blow...

You might consider my position too - Compulsion

You might consider my position too

Uh won't you sit down Artie - Compulsion

Uh won't you sit down Artie

Judd's broken his word of honor to me - Compulsion

Judd's broken his word of honor to me

Don't you know this is a murder case - Compulsion

Don't you know this is a murder case

A Stutz Bearcat - Compulsion

A Stutz Bearcat

Then Judd drove me home and I went to bed - Compulsion

Then Judd drove me home and I went to bed

I don't understand you - Compulsion

I don't understand you

I don't think we ought to worry our heads over the kind of folks - Compulsion

I don't think we ought to worry our heads over the kind...

They are either insane or they are not - Compulsion

They are either insane or they are not

I'll understand if you'd rather have another lawyer - Compulsion

I'll understand if you'd rather have another...

More psychiatric verbiage - Compulsion

More psychiatric verbiage

Poppycock Doctor - Compulsion

Poppycock Doctor

No further advances - Compulsion

No further advances

Isn't a lifetime behind prison bars enough for this mad act - Compulsion

Isn't a lifetime behind prison bars enough for this mad...

We're told it was a cold blooded killing because they planned and schemed - Compulsion

We're told it was a cold blooded killing because they...

What about this matter of crime and punishment anyway - Compulsion

What about this matter of crime and punishment anyway

If there is any way of destroying hatred and all that goes with it - Compulsion

If there is any way of destroying hatred and all that goes...

I'm asking this court to shut them into a prison for life - Compulsion

I'm asking this court to shut them into a prison for...

If our state is not kinder - Compulsion

If our state is not kinder

I can only think now of taking these two boys - Compulsion

I can only think now of taking these two boys

It's taken the world a long - Compulsion

It's taken the world a long

In those years to come - Compulsion

In those years to come

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Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case.

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Director: Richard Fleischer

Writer: Richard Murphy, Meyer Levin

Production: Darryl F. Zanuck Productions,20th Century Fox

Genre: biography, crime, drama

Year: 1959

MetaScore: N/A/100

ImdbRating: 7.4

BoxOffice: N/A

Released: 01 May 1959

Awards: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award1 win & 6 nominations total

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