Compulsion

THEIRS WAS THE PERFECT CRIME they thought! They were too sure...too smart...too careful to leave a clue -- but they did! and it exploded -- The shocking story of two teenagers out for kicks..

Two close friends kidnap and murder a young boy and are defended in court by a renowned attorney who makes an impassioned plea against capital punishment.

Orson Welles

Jonathan Wilk

Diane Varsi

Ruth Evans

Dean Stockwell

Judd Steiner

Bradford Dillman

Arthur A. Straus

E.G. Marshall

District Attorney Harold Horn

Martin Milner

Sid Brooks

Richard Anderson

Max Steiner

Robert F. Simon

Police Lt. Johnson

Robert Burton

Charles Straus

Wilton Graff

Mr. Steiner

Louise Lorimer

Mrs. Straus aka 'Mumsy'

Gavin MacLeod

Padua - Horn's Assistant

Edward Binns

Tom Daly

Colin Kenny

Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)