Compulsion (1959)

Rewatched (2024) (40 movies items)

" 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. "

Movies Watched in 2017 (41 movies items)

" Where: At Home, Netflix Instant Thoughts: I was stuck in bed sick all day so it was easy to make a double feature. I thought Compulsion would be an interesting film to watch since, A) I just watched a film with Orson Welles made 10 years prior, and B) I've seen the movie Rope, another interpretation of this infamous true crime duo, at least ten times, so it would be cool to compare them. The first part of this movie was really great and I liked it for a lot of the same reasons I liked The T"

Compulsion

“The true crime story of Leopold and Loeb is something that continues to entrance audiences with its layers of complicated motivations and deviant behavior, add in a dash of homosexuality and Nietzschian ideology and the whole thing practically comes gift wrapped with tabloid glamour. The best known film inspired by the true story was Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, a grand artistic experiment that finds it stylistic flourishes hampering its merits as a film, but this one may be the best film made out of the case.   Compulsion dives us into the minds of its two killers, affluent prodigies who commit their crime simply to prove that they can and that they’re somehow superior to everyone else around them, but primarily situates itself into Dean Stockwell’s Judd Steiner. Stockwell is a revel” read more

Watched in 2017 (274 movies items)

"My Rating:8/10 "

Film watched - katselut 2017 (178 movies items)

"Kaksi nuorta miestä murhaa hieman. Seuraa oikeudenkäynti, ja filmin pelastava osuus, eli aivan helvetin kiinnostunut Orson Welles puolustusasianajajana. Kuvaus on myös ihan tyylikästä.Orson oli tässä vielä suht.normaalin ihmisen kokoinen."