SYNOPSIS
Thriller based on the real-life case of Leopold and Loeb, the law students who murdered a young boy in the 1920s for the purposes of proving their higher intelligence. Orson Welles plays their lawyer in this story which was also the basis for Alfred Hitchock's movie "Rope".
- Orson WellesJonathan Wilk
- Dean StockwellJudd Steiner
- Diane VarsiRuth Evans
- Bradford DillmanArthur A. Straus
- E.G. MarshallDistrict Attorney Harold Horn
- Martin MilnerSid Brooks
- Richard AndersonMax Steiner
- Robert F. SimonPolice Lt. Johnson
- Edward BinnsTom Daly
- Robert BurtonCharles Straus
- Wilton GraffMr. Steiner
- Louise LorimerMrs. Straus aka 'Mumsy'
- Gavin MacLeodPadua - Horn's Assistant
- John AlbanReporter
- Don AndersonReporter
- Brandon BeachCourtroom Spectator
- Terry BeckerBenson - The Angry Reporter
- Russ BenderEdgar Llewellyn - Attorney
- Arthur BerkeleyJuror
- Paul BradleyCourtroom Spectator
- Peter BroccoAlbert - Steiner's Chauffeur
- Boyd CabeenReporter
- Alan CarneyGlobe Newspaper Editor
- Harry CarterDetective Davis
- Albert CavensCourtroom Spectator