Compulsion

movie

1h 43min

1959

Drama

Biography

Crime

Description

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.

Actors

Orson Welles

Jonathan Wilk

Dean Stockwell

Judd Steiner

Diane Varsi

Ruth Evans

Bradford Dillman

Arthur A. Straus

E.G. Marshall

District Attorney Harold Horn

Martin Milner

Sid Brooks

Richard Anderson

Max Steiner

Robert F. Simon

Police Lt. Johnson

Edward Binns

Tom Daly

Robert Burton

Charles Straus

Crew

Richard Fleischer

director

Richard Murphy

writer

Meyer Levin

writer

Richard D. Zanuck

producer

Lionel Newman

composer

William C. Mellor

cinematographer

William Reynolds

editor

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