16mm Filmography
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Compulsion.

Judd Steiner and Artie Strauss kill a boy on his way home from school in order to commit the "perfect crime" They are caught when police find a key piece of evidence — Steiner's glasses, which he inadvertently left at the scene of the crime. Famed attorney Jonathan Wilk takes their case, saving them from hanging by making an impassioned closing argument against capital punishment.

Credits

Cast
Bradford Dillman, Dean Stockwell, Diane Varsi, Orson Welles
Complete catalog record
COMPULSION. Darryl F. Zanuck Productions. Released by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. 103 min., sd., b&w, 35mm. Based on the novel by Meyer Levin. © Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, Inc.; 1Apr59; LP13441.

Related films

Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record
  2. Wikidata · Q1198236 ↗ — country

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