Compulsion

Compulsion has surprising power, the feeling of a new intellectualism being poured into the handsomely mounted "liberal" juggernauts Sam Goldwyn once produced.

Somewhat detached in its handling of emotional tensions, this smooth screen treatment of Meyer Levin's book nonetheless generates its own sort of cobra-like hypnosis.

Black-and-white classic about the Leopold-Loeb murder case.

First great 'thrill killer' movie

[Richard] Fleischer turns the screws hard in "Compulsion.

Richard Fleischer's thriller is loosely based on the celebrated 1924 Chicago murder trial of Jewish thrill-killers Leopold and Loeb.

Absorbing version of Leopold-Loeb story with standout Welles performance.

Apesar de mostrar a crueldade dos jovens, o filme leva o espectador a torcer contra a pena de morte graas, principalmente, ao forte monlogo de 10 minutos protagonizado por Orson Welles.