eMoviePoster.comAuction History Result 5m338 COMPULSION pressbook '59 crazy Stockwell & Dillman try to commit the perfect murder! Date Sold 10/16/2011Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 13" x 16 1/2"; 8 pages) (Learn More) Compulsion, the 1959 Richard Fleischer murder mystery crime courtroom lawyer legal thriller ("You know why we did it? Because we damn well felt like doing it!"; "The sensational book - more sensational on the screen!"; "It's on the screen at last with its shock and sensation intact!"; "They were both eighteen... sons of the city's most respected families. This is the story of their relationship... and of the crime they committed which assaulted the conscience of the world!"; "An irresistible impulse to commit an irrational act!"; "based on the novel by Meyer Levin"; similar to the real life Leopold/Loeb child murder trial, a "perfect murder" by two boy geniuses, one psychotic, that failed miserably; "Produced by Richard D. Zanuck" from Darryl F. Zanuck Productions) starring Orson Welles (playing a thinly veiled Clarence Darrow), Diane Varsi, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall, and Martin Milner NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that we have provided an image of the front and back covers of this pressbook, and of course, the winner of this auction will receive the entire single pressbook we are auctioning (plus any supplements or heralds described above)! Also note that this pressbook is complete and uncut! Given that theater owners purchased pressbooks partly in order to create their newspaper advertising, and quite frequently cut them up for that purpose, it is rare to find a pressbook that IS complete and uncut! Condition: very good, NO CUTS. Learn More about condition grades
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