Compulsion (1959 film)
1959 film directed by Richard Fleischer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Compulsion is a 1959 American crime drama film directed by Richard Fleischer. The film is based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Meyer Levin, which in turn was a fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb murder trial. It was the first film produced by Richard D. Zanuck.
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Directed by | Richard Fleischer |
Screenplay by | Richard Murphy |
Based on | Compulsion 1956 novel by Meyer Levin |
Produced by | Richard D. Zanuck |
Starring | Orson Welles Diane Varsi Dean Stockwell Bradford Dillman E. G. Marshall Martin Milner |
Cinematography | William C. Mellor |
Edited by | William H. Reynolds |
Music by | Lionel Newman |
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Distributed by | 20th Century-Fox |
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Running time | 103 minutes 99 minutes (FMC Library Print) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,345,000[1] |
Box office | $1.8 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[2] |
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Although the principal roles are played by Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman, top billing went to Orson Welles.