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Compulsion is a compelling, stylish thriller, loosely based on the famous 1924 murder trial of thrill-killers Loeb and Leopold, two homosexual students who murdered a young boy to demonstrate their intellectual superiority. Artie Straus (Bradford Dillman) is a sadistic, mother-dominated bully. Judd Steiner (Dean Stockwell) is a submissive, introverted sissy. Having been raised by wealthy, arrogant families, both Artie and Judd consider themselves above conventional morality. Unfeeling and conceited, the boys, after the killing, take delight in offering to aid in finding the culprits. It is this arrogance which leads to their capture and prosecution for the murders. Jonathan Wilk (Orson Welles), playing a Clarence Darrow-like criminal defense attorney, takes on the case, and puts on a defense, without the cooperation of his clients, who will offer no explanation for what they have done. Bradford Dillman gives an outstanding performance, as does Dean Stockwell as the utterly unsympathetic murderers. Orson Welles is flamboyantly imposing as Wilk, who must use all his wits to try to save the boys from execution. Compulsion is a suspenseful courtroom drama, even though most viewers will know the outcome. Tautly directed by Richard Fleischer, the film is an outstanding, believable courtroom drama.

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Synopsis:
The naive cowboy Tod Lohman accidentally kills the son of the powerful land baron Hunter Boyd. Tod runs for his life, pursued by the dead man’s vengeful brothers. Tod shelters on the ranch of Amos Bradley and he falls in love with his daughter Juanita. However, Tod is concerned that he’ll eventually have to leave when his pursuers catch up with him.

Review:
Visually stunning in CinemaScope. Henry Hathaway (“Kiss of Death”/”The Sons of Katie Elder”/”Call Northside 777”) capably directs this quality Western. The literate parable-like script by Wendell Mayes and Robert Buckner is based on the book The Hell-Bent Kid by Charles O. Locke. The ending is meaningful and well-done, though Hollywood changed the book’s tragic ending to a happy one. In the final vendetta confrontation scene between the victim’s father and the accused, it suggests the power there is in forgiveness.

Tod Lohman (Don Murray) is a naive ranch-hand cowboy, who by accident murders one of the sons of the powerful rancher Hunter Boyd (R. G. Armstrong) and in a state of panic goes on the run from the vengeful father and his other sons. Tom Boyd (Dennis Hopper) is the posse leader. Amos Bradley (Chill Wills) is the kindly rancher sympathetic to Tod, who gives him shelter. Juanita Bradley (Diane Varsi) is the tomboy daughter of Amos, who falls in love with Tod.

— Dennis Schwartz (Ozus’ World Movie Reviews).

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allmovie.com wrote:
Three friends from a small North Carolina town face bleak economic futures in the years following World War II. Johnny (Robert Walker Jr) takes to running moonshine after his discharge from military service. He tries to think of a way for a better life for wife Carol (Diane Varsi) and their young son. Johnny and Carol hook up with Roger (Dick Clark), an ex-army demolitions expert. They plan to blow up the safe of a bootlegger, steal $200,000 and head off for a new life in sunny California. Their plans are thwarted when Roger uses too many explosives and the noise draws the attention of a Federal agent. Johnny kills the agent in this backwoods crime drama. Merle Haggard has a bit part and sings a few songs with the help of his band The Strangers. Clark was the producer who, with Michael Fisher, is responsible for the story. Plot Synopsis by Dan Pavlides

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Shy, introverted eager-beaver young school teacher Melodye Amerson (sweetly played by the adorable Kim Darby of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark fame) takes a job at a remote, quiet rural farming community that’s isolated from the rest of the world. The job proves to be far more difficult and challenging than she initially figured: the students are extremely terse, reserved and uncommunicative, the other townspeople are every bit as reticent, mysterious and unapproachable, and everyone lives by a strict code which leaves Melodye feeling confused and alienated.

Melodye remains determined and persistent, making a slow but steady attempt at getting the students and other townspeople to open up so they can let her in on their incredible secret.

Directed with exceptional restraint, acuity and tenderness by John Korty (who later helmed The Ewok Adventure), sensitively scripted by James M. Miller from Zenna Henderson’s thoughtful, low-key, utterly beguiling novel, deftly acted by a top-rate cast which includes Dan O’Herlihy as a sage town elder, Laurie Walters as O’Herlihy’s fetching but repressed daughter, Diane Varsi as the token accessible kindly local who gives Melodye guidance and advice, and an uncharacteristically subdued William Shatner as a friendly “outsider” physician, this gentle, folksy, leisurely paced Francis Ford Coppola science-fiction TV movie parable works as a lovely, reflective, and oftentimes charming exploration of overcoming fear, how tightly held to superstitious beliefs can be very constricting, opening up to allow nice, well-meaning others to have a positive, eye-opening influence on your life, and a particularly moving sincere plea for accepting and understanding those individuals whose uniqueness defies rigidly set and highly restrictive preconceived notions of so-called “normality.” A beautifully lulling and poignant little gem. – Joe Wawrzyniak, IMDB user

Produced by American Zoetrope between THX 1138 and The Conversation, this was apparently a failed pilot, and it certainly feels like one with its very abrupt ending. Is it entertaining? Marginally. I most enjoyed the lurid colors and the kids’ drawings. Shatner fans will be disappointed by his minimal screentime, none of which features him drunk on brandied peaches.

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