Release Date: 5/23/2006 Original Release: 1959 Format: DVD Length: 103 minutes Rating:Not Rated Rating Reason: (Reason unavailable) UPC: 024543238515 Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainm
It's Chicago and the year is 1924. Two young men are driving recklessly at night, and almost hit a drunken pedestrian. They are wealthy law students, the flamboyant Artie Straus (Bradford Dillman) constantly goading the intensely introverted Judd Steiner (Dean Stockwell) to still more outrageous escapades. Smugly feeling safe in their own superiority, the pair commit murder--just to show they can. So starts this gripping fictionalized version of the Leopold-Loeb case which shocked Americans and provoked Clarence Darrow, here fictionalized as Jonathan Wilk (Orson Welles), to make an impassioned plea that even these cold killers should not be hung.
A tough dramatization of the famous Leopold and Loeb murder case in which two college students kidnapped and killed a boy purely for kicks. Welles plays defense attorney Clarence Darrow in this adaptation of reporter Meyer Levin's novel.
DVD Features
Keep Case Full Frame - 1.33 Widescreen - 2.35 Audio: Mono - French, Spanish Stereo - English Subtitles - Spanish - Optional Additional Release Material: Teaser: 1. COMPULSION 2. ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE 3. MURDER, INC.
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