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Summary. Chicago, May 21, 1924. Nathan Leopold Jr., age eighteen, and Robert Loeb, age nineteen, killed fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks. They were quickly apprehended when Leopold’s glasses were found near the corpse. Clarence Darrow defended them, pleading eloquently against capital punishment.
Jan 1, 1999 · In 1924, two young millionaires -- Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb -- abducted and killed fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks, horrifying a nation. Never the Sinner is John Logan's brilliant documentary play about the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, known in its time as the "crime of the century" and still one of the most notorious.Leopold and ...
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Never the Sinner: Directed by Paul Annett. With Joss Ackland, Julian Glover, Martin McDougall, Alexis Denisof. The Leopold and Loeb case presented in a semi-documentary manner.
- Paul Annett
- 1990
- Drama
- Joss Ackland, Julian Glover, Martin McDougall
Appealing and convincing as lovers, there's a fatal intensity between them that is deliciously and emotionally compelling. Winfrey expertly captures Loeb's charisma and need for attention in a character that is by turns charming and alarmingly callous.
Dec 2, 1997 · In John Logan's remarkable play ''Never the Sinner,'' Clarence Darrow tells a judge that Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, who murdered a 14-year-old boy in their Chicago neighborhood in 1924,...
Sep 22, 1997 · The 1924 Chicago murder trial of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr. is brought vividly to life in a classy revival of 1985’s “Never the Sinner” by two Washington, D.C.-area theaters ...
Oct 24, 2006 · They inspired Alfred Hitchcock, Meyer Levin, and a playwright named John Logan. His play, Never the Sinner, has the potential to be a transcendent work of theater, blending the immortal words of historical figures like Clarence Darrow with scenes of his own invention.
