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Compulsion

1959 ‧ Crime/Thriller ‧ 1h 43m
7.4/10 · IMDb 85% · Rotten Tomatoes 3.6/5 · Letterboxd
Sociopathic students Artie Straus (Bradford Dillman) and Judd Steiner (Dean Stockwell) murder a boy in a philosophical exercise to commit the flawless crime. Despite their precautions, one of them inadvertently left a key piece of evidence at the...
Release date: April 1, 1959 (New York)
Distributed by: 20th Century Studios
Adapted from: Compulsion
Box office: $1.8 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)