Movie Information
Overall Rank: 1268
Average Rating: 3/4
# of Ratings: 38
Theatrical Release Date: 04/01/1959
Language: English
Genre: Biography, Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actors: Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall, Richard Anderson
Plot: This film is based on the trial of Leopold and Loeb in the 1920s. They were the two well to do young men, who murdered a boy just to experience murder. -- MaceeRae
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Rating of
3/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 10/11/2023
Courtroom drama given a massive boost by Orson friggin Welles as the lawyer assigned to defend two young men who kill a boy as an intellectual exercise from the gallows. Inspired by the Leopold & Loeb murder trial from the 1920s.
Rating of
3/4
Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 08/04/2019
Inspired by the real life Leopold and Loeb thrill killing, "Compulsion" works better as a detective and legal drama than an insight into a killer's mind.
Rating of
2/4
Allison - wrote on 07/04/2009
Another film that was ahead of its time, because of the attempted rape sequence. It sort of shook me up. But it was a court-room drama much like Anatomy of a Murder, and I've had enough of that kind of thing lately. It was also too much and not handled in the most tasteful way.
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