Similar to Rope?


I haven't watched this film, but the plot sounds incredibly similar to Hitchcock's 1948 Rope. Comments?

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Well, yes, both films were based on a real murder, known as the Leopold-Loeb case, so of course they have a lot in common!

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this was more factual, except for the name changes.

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It's been (almost) a couple of years since your post...have you had the chance to see it yet? It's on right now on TCM so I had to look it up. It's got such good actors in it that I had to see it. And I agree with the other post...it is like Rope but a little more true to the real story. I think there was another one (or two) based on the same true story...but I can't think of the names.

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It's more like two films based on the same basic idea, Two rich kids one cocky one more introverted, kill someone for a lark.

But then both go off in differnt directions with different reasons why they are both good.

I'd say rope is more suspenseful (and fun), but the characters are better portrayed in Compulsion.

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They are filmed so differently, yet I felt I could almost overlay them, they are that much alike, Really good performances all around in both, then there's that one scene segway into Bradford Dillman's jacket borrowing from the Hitchcock version. Compulsion is certainly much more fleshed out, whereas Rope is filmed like a play on one set. Dean Stockwell gives an incredible performance, chilling.

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