  | COMPULSION (NOTE: Time, Day & Location Changes) October 11, 2000 (Wednesday) at 7:00 p.m. Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center (Free and Open to the Public)
(American, 1959, 103 minutes, b&w, video) |
COMPULSION is a compelling thriller, based on the infamous Leopold-Loeb case of the 1920s which involved the trial of two intelligent, well-to-do-students who kidnapped and murdered a child to prove their intellectual superiority. In the spellbinding piece of acting, Orson Welles delivers a compressed version of Clarence Darrow's astonishing three-day courtroom defense address.
A panel discussion on the film will immediately follow the screening of COMPULSION. The panel will include representatives from the legal profession, psychiatry, and journalism.