Compulsion (1959)

Directors

Richard Fleischer

Cast

Orson Welles, Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell, E.G. Marshall, Martin Milner, Richard Anderson, Bradford Dillman

The story

Close friends Judd Steiner and Artie Straus each believe they fit Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy of a "superman" (Übermensch), and thus are above the law. From wealthy, socially prominent families, both are graduate law students under age 20 at the University of Chicago (Artie tells investigators that he began undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan at age 14). Both believe themselves able to outsmart the "inferior" persons surrounding them.

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