Compulsion poster
Screenplay Richard Murphy
Director Richard Fleischer

Compulsion

Tagline: 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!

Release Date: 1959-04-01

Duration: 103 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Richard Anderson
    Max Steiner
  • Orson Welles
    Jonathan Wilk
  • Bradford Dillman
    Arthur A. Straus
  • Dean Stockwell
    Judd Steiner
  • Gavin MacLeod
    Padua - Horn's Assistant
  • Martin Milner
    Sid Brooks
  • E.G. Marshall
    District Attorney Harold Horn
  • Edward Binns
    Tom Daly
  • Diane Varsi
    Ruth Evans
  • Robert Burton
    Charles Straus