Compulsion

Name: Compulsion
Director: Richard Fleischer
Released: 1959-01-01

1959 film by Richard Fleischer

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Released: 1959
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Screenwriter: Richard Murphy
Producer: Richard D. Zanuck
Cast: Orson Welles
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, Diane Varsi
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1.imdb.com/title/tt0052700/fullcreditsRetrieved 2016-05-09
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, Dean Stockwell
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, Bradford Dillman
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Runtime: 103 min
Genre: drama film
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, crime film
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, film noir
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Country of origin: United States

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Compulsion is a 1959 American crime drama film directed by Richard Fleischer, based on the 1956 novel by Meyer Levin, which in turn is a thinly-fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb murder trial. The film stars Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman as the perpetrators, and Orson Welles as their defense attorney Jonathan Wilk. Diane Varsi, E. G. Marshall, and Martin Milner play supporting roles.

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Director of photography: William C. Mellor
Main subject: capital punishment
Narrative location: Chicago
Filming location: Los Angeles
Chicago
Title: Compulsion
Color: black-and-white
Film editor: William H. Reynolds
Distribution format: video on demand
Based on: Compulsion
Review score: 100%(December 1, 2024) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes · number of reviews/ratings: 10 critic review
7.6/10(October 6, 2021) review score by: Rotten Tomatoes
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CNC film rating (France): no age restriction
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Has characteristic: film based on a novel
Set in period: 1920s
20th century
After a work by: Meyer Levin

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