Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot: a bartender is murdered by an Army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara), who tells the police he committed the crime because the bartender had beaten and raped his wife (Lee Remick). The wife supports the lieutenant's story, and a lie-detector test, though not admissible in evidence, supports her account of the rape. But the medical examiner finds no physical evidence that the woman was violated. What's more, the lieutenant's wife is a well-known tramp about camp. Obviously, the prosecution reasons, she had been a willing partner in whatever happened with the bartender...
Compulsion. Leopold and Loeb's brutal "crime of the century" re-created in a tight, suspenseful film...
...Circuit Judge W. (for William) May Walker, 54, a snow-haired tree of a man (6 ft. 2 in., 220 lbs.) and a lifelong Floridian, whose love for the South is exceeded only by his dedication to equal justice under the law. "Yours was a horrible and deplorable crime, committed under horrible circumstances," said the judge. And then he handed down the stiffest sentences possible-considering that the jury had recommended mercy (TIME, June 22): life terms in Raiford State Prison. He was sorry, said Judge Walker, father of two sons, aged 11 and 15, to send any young...
Gideon of Scotland Yard. Jolly good fun for the crime crowd...
Compulsion. Leopold and Loeb's "crime of the century" re-created in a tight, suspenseful film...