Compulsion

Compulsion

1959 · 103 min · EN · 7.0 (118 votes)
Dir. Richard Fleischer · Starring Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Orson Welles, E.G. Marshall, Diane Varsi, Martin Milner · Music Lionel Newman

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!

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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.

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A chillingly detached examination of privileged sociopathy and the legal system's struggle with capital punishment. It's a stark, intellectual descent into the minds of killers, framed by a gripping courtroom drama.

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