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Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1991 DVD Release: 08/24/2004 Format: DVD - Black and White,Letterbox for TV SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 35 mins Studio: Strand Home Video Members Wishing: 12 Genres: Drama, Courtroom Drama, Crime Drama, Gay & Lesbian Films

Tom Kalin directed this cool and aloof black-and-white study of the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, a case told before in two previous films -- Rope and Compulsion. In 1924, in Chicago, Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two 18-year-olds, kidnapped and murdered the 13-year-old Bobby Franks, immediately killing him and then stuffing his naked body up a culvert. The motive for the crime was simply that they wanted to prove to themselves that they were smart enough to get away with it. The previous film versions downplayed Leopold and Loeb's homosexuality, but Kalin's version plays it up into a psychosexual motif. Loeb (Daniel Schlachet) is the calculating intellectual, while Leopold (Craig Chester), the amateur ornithologist, is the emotional and weak one. In love with Loeb, Leopold is willing to do anything for him, and when Leob uses the withholding of sex as a prompt, Leopold is even willing to commit murder to have his sexual desires satisfied by Loeb. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Daniel Schlachet - Richard Loeb
Craig Chester - Nathan Leopold, Jr.
Ron Vawter - State's Attorney Crowe
Michael Kirby - Detective Savage
Michael Stumm - Doctor Bowman