Compulsion was released in the year 1959。Compulsion is also called as Rikollinen vietti, Impulso criminal, Génie du mal, Frenesia del delitto, Estranha Obsessão, Estranha Compulsão, Brottslig drift, Amoralske, Zwang zum Bösen。

Based very closely on the Loeb-Leopold murder case, the second half of the movie is primarily taken from defense attorney Clarence Darrow's actual courtroom presentation. In 1924 Chicago Jonathan Wilk (Darrow) is asked to defend two wealthy young men who have murdered a boy.

Compulsion actors and actresses include Alan Carney, Dean Stockwell, E.G. Marshall, Gavin MacLeod, Martin Milner, Orson Welles。