Stage: Directed "Compulsion" on Broadway. Drama. Dramatization (Producer's Version) by:
Meyer Levin. Original Music by / Musical Director:
Cy Coleman. Scenic Design by
Peter Larkin. Costume Design by John Boxer. Lighting Design by Charles Elson. Ambassador Theatre: 24 Oct 1957-22 Feb 1958 (140 performances). Cast:
Roddy McDowall (as "Artie Straus"),
Dean Stockwell (as "Judd Steiner [1924]"),
Howard Da Silva (as "Horn, The Prosecuting Attorney"), Ben Astar (as "Charles Kessler" / "Dr. Allman"),
Ina Balin (as "Ruth Goldenberg"), Helen Baron (as "Sandra Mannheimer"), Julian Barry (as "Willie Weiss"), James Bender (as "Tom Daly, A Reporter"), Joseph Beruh (as "A Prison Guard" / "A Drugstore Clerk" / "A Waiter" / "Danny Mines, A Reporter"),
Michael Constantine (as "Al, Owner of a Speakeasy" / "Jonathan Wilk, The Defense Attorney"), Joan Croydon (as "Mrs. Straus "), Edward Cullen (as "Judge Matthewson"),
Roger De Koven (as "Ferdinand Feldscher "),
Reynolds Evans (as "Dr. Stauffer"), Chris Gampel (as "Judd Steiner [today]" / "Emil, The Steiners' Chauffeur"),
Stefan Gierasch (as "Max Steiner"),
Gerald Gordon (as "Sid Silver [today]" / "Sid Silver [1924]), Mark Gordon (as "A Bartender" / "Prison Guard"),
Lloyd Gough (as "Dr. McNarry"),
Michael Gough (as "Dr. Ball"), James Greene (as "Mr. Farmer" / "Dr. Vincenti"), Ted Gunther (as "Swasey, A Detective"), Earl Hammond (as "James Straus"), Muriel Higgins (as "First Girl"),
Bernard Lenrow (as "Judah Steiner Jr."),
Barbara Loden (as "Myra Seligman"),
John Marley (as "Mike Prager" / "Another Reporter"), Barbara Miners (as "Third Girl"), Gina Petrushka (as "Elsie Kessler"),
Suzanne Pleshette (as "Fourth Girl"), James Ray (as "Lyman" / "A Third Reporter" / "Raphael Goetz"), Dorothy Raymond (as "A Medium" / "Aunt Bertha"),
Patricia Roe (as "A Girl on the Telephone" / "Second Girl"), Luchino Solito de Solis (as "Billy Straus"), Paul Stevens (as "Padua, Assistant to the Prosecutor"), D.J. Sullivan (as "Milt Lewis"), Elliot Sullivan (as "McNamara, A Detective"), Maybelle Wright (as "Peg Sweet" / "A Newspaper Woman"), Ben Yaffee (as "Oliver Steger"). Produced by
Michael Myerberg. Produced in association with Len S. Gruenberg. NOTE: (1) This was a thinly veiled dramatization of the infamous Leopold-Leob murder. (2) Filmed as
Estranha Obsessão (1959).
