• Compulsion is a 1959 American crime drama film directed by Richard Fleischer. The film is based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Meyer Levin, which...
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  • reducing that anxiety. Compulsion (1959 film), an American film based on Meyer Levin's novel (see below) Compulsion (2009 film), a British television...
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  • (Britain) 29 March Honeymoon (Britain/Spain) Some Like It Hot April 1959 1 April Compulsion Warlock 4 April Rio Bravo 6 April The Sound and the Fury 8 April...
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  • impassioned closing argument against capital punishment. In 1959, the novel was made into the film Compulsion by Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox. Directed by...
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    to her fiancé in the movie Carl Davis, played by Wendell Corey. Compulsion, 1959 film. Fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb trial. Orson Welles...
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  • The 12th Cannes Film Festival was held from 30 April to 15 May 1959. The Palme d'Or went to the Orfeu Negro by Marcel Camus. The festival opened with...
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    production duties of the film with actor Nageswara Rao. The 1959 American movie Compulsion (1959 film) is the inspiration for the script of the movie. American...
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  • (1954) Sailing to Byzantium Compulsion (1957) Bicycle Ride to Nevada (1963) Children of Ladybug Vaticum Compulsion (1959) The Subterraneans (1960) All...
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    Hayley Mills (category BAFTA Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles winners)
    Sheen's mother in the film Last Train to Christmas, and in 2022 she had a recurring role in the television thriller series Compulsion. In February 2023 she...
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    Bradford Dillman (category American male film actors)
    earned a Golden Globe award. It was a financial success. So too was Compulsion (1959), featuring Dillman, Dean Stockwell and Orson Welles for producer Richard...
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    Richard D. Zanuck (category Film people from Beverly Hills, California)
    in the film industry working for the 20th Century Fox story department. In 1959, Zanuck had his first shot at producing with the film Compulsion. In the...
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    The American films of 1959 are listed in a table of the films which were made in the United States and released in 1959. The film Ben-Hur won the Academy...
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    Richard Fleischer (category Film directors from Brooklyn)
    (1952), the true-crime dramas Compulsion (1959), The Boston Strangler (1968) and 10 Rillington Place (1971), the mob action film The Don Is Dead (1973), the...
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    Dean Stockwell (category American male film actors)
    lead role in the 1957 Broadway and 1959 screen adaptation of Compulsion; and in 1962 he played Edmund Tyrone in the film version of Long Day's Journey into...
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  • indicating "generally favorable reviews". Compulsion, a 1959 film based on the Leopold and Loeb events. R.S.V.P., a 2002 film that borrowed several key elements...
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  • daughter. Unable to wait until she leaves due to his compulsion, he begins screening his latest snuff film with her still in the room. She senses how emotionally...
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  • basis for Levin's own 1957 play adaptation and the 1959 film based on it, starring Orson Welles. Compulsion was "the first 'documentary' or 'non-fiction novel'...
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    Ina Balin (category American film actresses)
    Broadway in Compulsion, portraying Ruth. In 1959, she had the role of Alice Black in the comedy A Majority of One. In 1959, Balin landed her first film role...
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    Suzanne Pleshette (category American film actresses)
    stage actress. She made her Broadway debut in Meyer Levin's 1957 play Compulsion, adapted from his novel inspired by the Leopold and Loeb case. The following...
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  • Weekly gave the film a D+ and wrote, "I gave up making heads or tails of Synecdoche, New York, but I did get one message: The compulsion to stand outside...
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    Roddy McDowall (category English film directors)
    a big critical success with Compulsion (1957–58) based on Leopold and Loeb – although McDowall was not cast in the film version. He followed it with...
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    Barbara Loden (category American film actresses)
    hate film, saying, "People on the screen were perfect and they made me feel inferior." Loden made her New York theater debut in 1957 in Compulsion and...
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    Robert F. Simon (category American male film actors)
    In 1959, he appeared on Peter Gunn and Adventures in Paradise. His other 1950s film credits included appearances in The Buccaneer (1958), Compulsion (1959)...
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    E. G. Marshall (category American male film actors)
    Mystery Theater. In film, Marshall was known for playing Juror 4 in 12 Angry Men (1957), District Attorney Harold Horn in Compulsion (1959), Colonel Jerome...
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  • Compulsion, a 1959 film directed by Richard Fleischer. Sergeant Rutledge, a 1960 western directed by John Ford. It Started in Naples, a 1960 film directed...
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    Edward Binns (category American male film actors)
    Compulsion (1959) as Tom Daly The Man in the Net (1959) as State Police Captain Green Curse of the Undead (1959) as Sheriff North by Northwest (1959)...
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    in the film Prince of Foxes. In 1956, he appeared as Father Mapple in the John Huston-directed Moby Dick. His performance in Compulsion (1959) earned...
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    Nina Shipman (category American film actresses)
    (uncredited) Compulsion (1959) - Girlfriend (uncredited) Say One for Me (1959) - Fay Flagg Blue Denim (1959) - Lillian Bartley The Oregon Trail (1959) - Prudence...
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    multiple men (more than 2) the prize for one film. The four films were: A Big Family (1955), Compulsion (1959), Long Day's Journey into Night (1962), and...
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    successful Compulsion (1959). Fleischer was enthusiastic about making a John Wayne film but did not like the story. He says a prime force behind the film was...
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