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Compulsion: Directed by Richard Fleischer. With Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman. Two wealthy law-school students go on trial for murder in this version of the Leopold-Loeb case.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Richard Fleischer
- 1959-05-01
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 . Although the principal roles are played by Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman, top billing went to Orson Welles .
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He reprised the role in the 1959 film version, for which he and co-stars Orson Welles and Bradford Dillman shared the 1959 Cannes Film Award for Best Actor. Stockwell continued to work heavily in TV on such shows as Playhouse 90, Johnny Staccato, and Buick-Electra Playhouse. Stockwell married actress Millie Perkins on April 15, 1960.
Nov 9, 2021 · That's a long story. Stockwell's life featured multiple "disappearances," some of which were involuntary, but some of which were conscious choices. He was born in California in 1936 to artistic parents, performers but not really "in the business." His mother, Nina Olivette, had a career in vaudeville before settling down to have children.
Jan 18, 2018 · Bradford Dillman, who starred with Dean Stockwell in the taut 1959 crime drama Compulsion and portrayed Edmund in the original Broadway production of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into...
Thereafter, Stockwell segued into television for several years until resurfacing as a mature actor in Richard Fleischer 's Compulsion (1959), (based on the infamous Leopold & Loeb murder case), co-starring with Bradford Dillman as one of the two young killers, and Orson Welles.
Nov 9, 2021 · Other notable roles in that period included “Compulsion” (1959), a fictionalized version of a well-known murder case, in which he and Bradford Dillman played the killers of a young boy; and...
