Top billed cast

1. 

   Dean Stockwell

   Judd Steiner

2. 

   Bradford Dillman

   Arthur A. Straus

3. 

   Orson Welles

   Jonathan Wilk

4. 

   E.G. Marshall

   District Attorney Harold Horn

5. 

   Diane Varsi

   Ruth Evans

6. 

   Martin Milner

   Sid Brooks

7. 

   Richard Anderson

   Max Steiner

8. 

   Robert F. Simon

   Police Lt. Johnson

9. 

   Robert Burton

   Charles Straus

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Reviews

A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on 2015-08-10

Lets go watch them slaughter the sheep!

Compulsion is directed by Richard Fleischer and adapted to screenplay by Richard Murphy from the novel written by Meyer Levin. It stars Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Orson Welles and Diane Varsi. Music is by Lionel Newman and cinematography by William C. Mellor.

Based upon the real life Leopold and Loeb murder trial of the 1920s, Compulsion finds Artie Strauss (Dillman) and Judd Steiner (Stockwell) as two well to do young men attempting to commit the perfect crime - murder! But it wasn't so perfect after all and they soon find themselves on tri...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$1,345,000.00

Revenue
$1,800,000.00

Keywords

• death penalty
• based on novel or book
• police
• philosophy
• child murder
• based on true story
• lawyer
• courtroom
• glasses
• arrogance
• suspenseful
• superiority
• gay interest