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Warner Bros. Pictures
details
Release Date: Jan 1, 1991
Running Time: 90 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Story of two Jewish teenagers, Nathan "Babe" Leopold Jr and Richard "Dicky" Loeb, involved in the kidnapping and murder of a boy in 1924.
cast + crew
Director
Richard Loeb
Nathan Leopold Jr
State's Attorney Crowe
Detective Savage
Doctor Bowman
Germaine Reinhardt
Susan Lurie
Venus in Furs Diva
Venus in Furs Diva
Herself
screenplay
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Executive Producer
Producer
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Associate Producer
reviews
April 17, 2001
If you want to see a movie that really nails the pathology of bigotry, try writer-director Tom Kalin's revisionist look at the 1924 Chicago trial of Leopold and Loeb -- two gay, Jewish, eighteen-year-old intellectuals convicted of the "thrill killing" of thirteen-year-old Bobby Franks.Kalin is not arguing the innocence of Nathan Leopold (Craig Chester) or Richard Loeb (Daniel Schlachet). His point is that contrary to the popular belief at the time, their homosexuality did not make them do it.…
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