朱门孽种 (1959)
Compulsion
这部精彩的、令人目不睱接的经典法庭片，聚焦于1924年的真实案件“利奥波德.里普谋杀案”(利奥波德.里普是出生于德国的著名生理及生物学家)。奥逊威尔斯饰演一位才智过人律师，他搜集各种证据，极力推翻法庭作出的对两位芝加哥少年的死刑判决，通过精彩的法庭辩论成功地挽救了两个少年的生命。
演员阵容
- 迪恩·斯托克韦尔 — Judd Steiner
- 布拉德福德·迪尔曼 — Arthur A. Straus
- 奥逊·威尔斯 — Jonathan Wilk
- E·G·马歇尔 — District Attorney Harold Horn
- 黛安·瓦西 — Ruth Evans
- Martin Milner — Sid Brooks
- 理查德·安德森 — Max Steiner
- Robert F. Simon — Police Lt. Johnson
- Robert Burton — Charles Straus
- Wilton Graff — Mr. Steiner
- Louise Lorimer — Mrs. Straus aka 'Mumsy'
- 加文·麦克劳德 — Padua - Horn's Assistant
趣闻
- 改编自：Compulsion
- 拍摄地：洛杉矶和芝加哥
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 trial. The film stars Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman as the perpetrators, and Orson Welles as their defense attorney Jonathan Wilk. Diane Varsi, E. G. Marshall, and Martin Milner play supporting roles.
Production
Orson Welles, whose recent thriller Touch of Evil was overlooked in America (though appreciated in Europe), was bitter at not being selected to direct Compulsion. His time on the set was tense, and he threw frequent tantrums. Bradford Dillman, who played the character based on Dickie Loeb, recalled his experience with Orson Welles: "Although Orson was helpful to me on Compulsion, he was not overly friendly. Welles was not a gregarious person.
In the early 1950s, Meyer Levin visited Nathan Leopold in prison and requested that Leopold cooperate with him on writing a novel based on the murder (the other murderer, Richard Loeb, was dead by that time). Leopold declined, saying he did not wish his story to be told in fictionalized form, but asked Levin if he could help him write his memoir. Levin was unhappy with that suggestion and wrote the novel anyway, releasing it in 1956.
In 1959, Leopold sought unsuccessfully to block production of the film 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 that they were indistinguishable." Eventually, the Illinois Supreme Court ruled against him, noting that Leopold, as the confessed perpetrator of the "crime of the century", could not reasonably demonstrate that Levin's book…
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