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Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. (November 19, 1904 – August 29, 1971) [1] and Richard Albert Loeb (/ ˈ l oʊ b /; June 11, 1905 – January 28, 1936), usually referred to collectively as Leopold and Loeb, were two American students at the University of Chicago who kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on May 21, 1924.
Compulsion is a 1959 American crime drama film directed by Richard Fleischer, based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Meyer Levin, which in turn is a thinly-fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb murder trial.
Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story is a musical with a book, music, and lyrics by Stephen Dolginoff. It is based on the true story of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, the so-called "thrill killers" who murdered a young boy in 1924 in order to commit "the perfect crime." The story is told in flashbacks, beginning with a 1958 parole hearing.
It recounts the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case, focusing more on the homosexuality of the killers than other films based on the case. Swoon is considered an integral part of the New Queer Cinema movement. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 1992, where it won Best Cinematography. [2]
Today though, I was blindsided by someone telling me Leopold and Loeb were gay. After doing a quick DuckDuckGo search, it seems that this information is plastered everywhere! Yet it is mentioned nowhere in the article except for one brief mention in the popular culture section at the very bottom in a description of Never the Sinner, John Logan ...
The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; / l oʊ b /, German:) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann and since 1934 by Harvard University Press. [1] It has bilingual editions of ancient Greek and Latin literature , with the original Greek or Latin text on the left-hand page and a fairly literal translation on ...
Meyer Levin (October 7, 1905 – July 9, 1981) was an American novelist. Perhaps best known for his work on the Leopold and Loeb case, Levin worked as a journalist (for the Chicago Daily News and from 1933 to 1939, he worked as an editor for Esquire).
Compulsion is a 1956 crime novel by the American writer Meyer Levin.Set in 1924 Chicago, it is inspired by the real-life Leopold and Loeb trial, and was a best seller. [1] Two college students kidnap and kill a boy in order to prove they can get away with the perfect crime.