When two wealthy law students sadistic bully Artie Straus (Bradford Dillman) and timid introvert Judd Steiner (Dean Stockwell) - plot and commit the 'perfect crime' to prove their intellectual superiority, their arrogance leads to their arrest and they are tried in a dramatic court case.
Based on the notorious 1924 murder trial of thrill-killers Leopold and Loeb, this stylish and compelling film from director Richard Fleischer (Mr. Majestyk) features cinema legend Orson Welles as the criminal defense lawyer and won Best Actor Awards for all three of its stars at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.