Compulsion
THEIRS WAS THE PERFECT CRIME they thought! They were too sure...too smart...too careful to leave a clue -- but they did! and it exploded -- The shocking story of two teenagers out for kicks...looking for thrills...and finding them!
4/1/1959
Imdb: tt0052700
Tmdb: 35921
Popularity: 14.78
Vote: 7.043/10 (136)

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.
Orson Welles
Jonathan Wilk
Diane Varsi
Ruth Evans
Dean Stockwell
Judd Steiner
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
Robert Burton
Charles Straus
Wilton Graff
Mr. Steiner
Louise Lorimer
Mrs. Straus aka 'Mumsy'
Gavin MacLeod
Padua - Horn's Assistant
Edward Binns
Tom Daly
Colin Kenny
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Raoul Freeman
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
Herschel Graham
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
3 Ring Circus
The Scapegoat
Seven Thunders
Mr. Majestyk
Call Northside 777
The Friends at the Margherita Café
Branded to Kill
Duck Amuck
The Bishop's Wife
The Emperor's Club
The Big Sleep
All Dogs Go to Heaven
Toni Erdmann
Look Away
Funny Games
Mulholland Drive
Lion
Brave
The Revenant
Avatar: The Way of Water
Metropolis
Blade Runner
The Elementary Particles
Anatomy of a Murder
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Tobacconist
The Tin Drum
Ben-Hur
Contact
The Bridges of Madison County
Manhattan
Finding Forrester
The Last Emperor
Murder She Said
Murder at the Gallop
Murder Most Foul
GoodFellas
The Iron Claw
Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer
based on novel or book
child murder
based on true story
male homosexuality
courtroom
arrogance