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Based on Meyer Levin's novel about the LeopoldLoeb case, Compulsion is a well-wrought film which manages to steer around the usual stereotyped situations of college rebellion, detective work, and courtroom emotion. Primarily responsible are Dean Stockwell and Bradford Stillman as the paranoid Judd Steiner and the schizoid Artie Straus, and Orson Welles, who carries the latter part of the film on his sizeable bulk while playing the defense attorney (Clarence Darrow was responsible for life imprisonment sentences rather than the gallows for his clients...
Judd Steiner and Artie Straus (fictional names for Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb) are wealthy, brilliant young law students at the University of Chicago. Straus-Loeb, as portrayed by Bradford Dillman, is the spoiled-rotten son of a socialite mother. At 18, he is already a vicious little sadist. Steiner-Leopold, as Dean Stockwell interprets him, is a motherless young genius whose IQ is too high to be measured by any known intelligence test-essentially a gentle boy who has been completely mesmerized by the animal magnetism of his evil companion. Straus-Loeb is the superman, Steiner-Leopold the "superior...
...film's philosophy is open to debate, its psychiatry to ridicule, but its actors are open only to ovation. Orson Welles, frazzle-pated, barrel-bellied, hollow-eyed, creates a fetching caricature of the great trial lawyer, all fustian and a yard wide. Bradford Dillman, the Straus-Loeb, is alarmingly screw loose and frenzy free. But it is Dean Stockwell, as Steiner-Leopold, who dominates the drama. His intensity and insight do much to explain the character's homosexuality, do something to clarify his fearful crime...
Most of the varsity's triumphs came against relatively weak fencing squads from such schools as Trinity, Connecticut, and Bradford Durfee. The Crimson gained possession of the Arvanites Trophy by downing inexperienced sabre squads from Brandeis, B.U., and M.I.T. The trophy, offered for the first time this year, goes annually to the best sabre team in the Boston area, and the varsity should be able to retire it in short order...
Jean Gannett Williams' legacy was loaded with liabilities-but not of the financial sort. Her credentials were meager: one year's apprenticeship, one press junket through Europe. Buffed to a high private-school gloss at Masters School and Bradford Junior College, she seemed miscast in a man's world of deadlines and hot lead. Jean became president, but Gannett papers were really managed by two survivors of her father's rule: General Manager Laurence H. Stubbs and Publisher Roger Chilton Williams, son of the late novelist Ben Ames Williams-and Jean Gannett Williams' ex-husband...