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Compulsion
Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves his glasses at the crime scene.
1959 · Directed by Richard Fleischer · 103 min · Crime · Drama · History · Thriller · 10 frames
Tagline
Sometimes murder is just a way to pass the time.
Crew
- Screenplay: Richard Murphy
- Cinematography: William C. Mellor
- Edited by: William Reynolds
- Music: Lionel Newman
- Produced by: Richard D. Zanuck
Cast
- Dean Stockwell as Judd Steiner
- Bradford Dillman as Arthur A. Straus
- Orson Welles as Jonathan Wilk
- E.G. Marshall as District Attorney Harold Horn
- Diane Varsi as Ruth Evans
- Martin Milner as Sid Brooks
- Richard Anderson as Max Steiner
- Robert F. Simon as Police Lt. Johnson
- Robert Burton as Charles Straus
- Wilton Graff as Mr. Steiner
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Darryl F. Zanuck Productions, 20th Century Fox
- Budget: $1,345,000
- Box office: $1,800,000
- Themes: death penalty, based on novel or book, police, philosophy, child murder, based on true story, lawyer, courtroom, glasses, arrogance
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