COMPULSION (1959) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1959
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: Brand New 4K Restoration! Sometimes murder is just a way to pass the time! The great Richard Fleischer (The Vikings) directed this riveting true story about the notorious 1924 Leopold/Loeb murder case. Hollywood Icon Orson Welles (The Third Man, Touch of Evil) stars as the brilliant Clarence Darrow whose historymaking defense against capitol punishment saved two Chicago teenagers from a death sentence. Though names were changed, this factual and fascinating character study focuses on the two boys - one bossy and intimidating (Bradford Dillman, The Mephisto Waltz), the other sensitive and introverted (Dean Stockwell, Married to the Mob) - who thought their superior intellect would enable them to pull off 'the perfect crime/' This tense, intelligent re-enactment of what was seen as the crime of the century, co-stars Diane Varsi (Peyton Place), E.G. Marshall (12 Angry Men), Martin Milner (TV's Adam-12 and Route 66), Gavin MacLeod (TV's The Love Boat and The Mary Tyler Moore Show) and Richard Anderson (TV's The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman)
• Cast: Robert F. Simon, Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Henry Kulky, Alan Carney, Ina Balin, Ed Binns, Gavin MacLeod, Robert Burton, Peter Brocco, Jeffrey Sayre, Wilton Graff, Richard Anderson, Frank Conroy, Edmund Cobb, Wendell Holmes, E.G. Marshall, Nina Shipman, Diane Varsi, Bradford Dillman, Dayton Lummis, Martin Milner, Hal Taggart, Louise Lorimer, Jack Lomas, Richard Fleischer, Richard Murphy
• Director: Richard Fleischer
• Runtime: 1:43
• Company: Kino Lorber, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie