Compulsion – A Film with Orsen Welles, Bradford Dillman, and Dean Stockwell

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    Darrow was the inspiration for the character of Johnathan Wilk in the 1956 novel Compulsion, a thinly fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb case. In 1959, the novel was adapted into a film of the same name, starring the legendary filmmaker Orson Welles as Wilk. Welles, whose closing monologue was the longest ever committed to film at that time, shared the Best Actor award with co-stars Bradford Dillman and Dean Stockwell at that year’s Cannes Film Festival.

  • True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
    Clarence Darrow

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