Génie du mal was released in the year 1959。Génie du mal is also called as Compulsion, Rikollinen vietti, Impulso criminal, 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.

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