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Compulsion

Compulsion (1959)

Crime, Drama, Historical, Thriller, Mystery | United States

Director: Richard Fleischer

Talking Pictures TV | Monday 2 September 2019 | 23:35

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Rating: 7.4/10

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".

Actors

Writer: Richard Murphy, Meyer Levin

Producer: Richard D. Zanuck

RUNTIME: 103 min

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