Compulsion (1959): Fleischer’s Version, Starring Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman–Movies Almost Not Made due to Gay Subect

Compulsion (1959) follows two bright, wealthy, secretly queer college boys who plan to commit the “perfect murder”

Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Diane Varsi,  Richard Anderson. 20th Century Fox
The film is loosely based on a real-life tale, which Hitchcock had made in the 1948 Rope, starring Farley Granger and John Dall, and indie director Tom Kalin would revisit in the 1992 Swoon.

The trailer:

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