Compulsion

THEIRS WAS THE PERFECT CRIME they thought! They were too sure...too smart...too careful to leave a clue -- but they did! and it exploded -- The shocking story of two teenagers out for kicks...looking for thrills...and finding them!

Compulsion (1959)

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Two close friends kidnap and murder a young boy and are defended in court by a renowned attorney who makes an impassioned plea against capital punishment.

Director: Richard Fleischer
Writer: Richard Murphy

Release Date: 1959-04-01
Status: Released
Run time: 103 min / 1:43
Production Companies : Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, 20th Century Fox
Production Country: United States of America

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Orson Welles
Jonathan Wilk
Diane Varsi
Ruth Evans
Dean Stockwell
Judd Steiner
Bradford Dillman
Arthur A. Straus
E.G. Marshall
District Attorney Harold Horn
Martin Milner
Sid Brooks
Richard Anderson
Max Steiner
Robert F. Simon
Police Lt. Johnson
Robert Burton
Charles Straus
Wilton Graff
Mr. Steiner
Louise Lorimer
Mrs. Straus aka 'Mumsy'
Gavin MacLeod
Padua - Horn's Assistant
Edward Binns
Tom Daly
Colin Kenny
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)

Crew

Production Richard D. Zanuck Producer
Directing Richard Fleischer Director
Editing William Reynolds Editor
Sound Lionel Newman Original Music Composer
Camera William C. Mellor Director of Photography
Writing Richard Murphy Screenplay
Writing Meyer Levin Novel

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