Rather good film of Leopold Loeb pair played by Bradford Dillman and Dean Stockwell. In 1924 the pair kidnap and kill (offscreen) a fellow classmate - dropped spectacles lead to their arrest and trial. Orson Welles successfully defends them against the death penalty, making it a still interesting subject of discussion. Frankly, it seems to me to have been a worse punishment for the intellectual couple to have been locked away for life. We thought Welles' speech went on too long - but the original took eight hours. So at least we were spared that.
It was based on Meyer Levin's novel
Diane Varis is the sympathetic girlfriend, E.G. Marshall the DA. With Martin Milner, Richard Anderson, Robert F Simon, Edward Binns.
Excellent photography from William C Mellor, noticeable editing from William Reynolds, music by Lionel Newman.
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| Mellor's done this sort of thing before |
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| But this? Trick photography? |
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