Leopold and Loeb
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Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. and Richard Albert Loeb, together known as Leopold and Loeb, were two American murderers who kidnapped and killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago, Illinois, United S
Leopold (right) and Loeb in August 1924
Bobby Franks
The ransom letter
Defense attorney Clarence Darrow
Compulsion (1959 film)
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Compulsion is a 1959 American crime drama film directed by Richard Fleischer, based on the 1956 novel by Meyer Levin, which in turn is a thinly-fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb murder tri
Leopold and Loeb
…youths." The State of Illinois voided his charter on grounds that it violated the terms of his parole. In 1959, Leopold sought to block production of the film version of Compulsion on the grounds that Levin's book had invaded his privacy, defamed him, profited from his life story and "intermingled fact and fiction to such an extent…
Theatrical release poster
Bradford Dillman plays Artie Straus, the dominant of the two friends who believe they fit Nietzsche's philosophy of a "superman" (Übermensch), thus are above the law.
Dean Stockwell plays Judd Steiner, the submissive personality who goes along with Artie's increasingly criminal commands.
Martin Milner plays Sid Brooks, a classmate of Steiner and Straus's, a reporter who discovers the eyeglasses found near Paulie's body, assumed to be his, are too large to be Paulie's and are key evidence.