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COMPULSION
March 21, 2013  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 
This 1959 movie dramatizes the infamous Leopold and Loeb trial, with Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman portraying the young men accused of murder as a “thrill crime” with no motive other than for the sheer thrill of it. Orson Welles shines as their attorney, with one of the best closing arguments ever performed in a film.
 
 
 
 
 
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