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Swoon

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Swoon
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NR,1hr 35min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1991
Director:
Tom Kalin
Distributor:
Strand Home Video
Starring:
Daniel Schlachet, Craig Chester, Ron Vawter  ...more
Synopsis: Tom Kalin directed this cool and aloof black-and-white study of the infamous Leopold and Loeb case, a case told before in two previous films -- Rope and Compulsion. In 1924, in Chicago, Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, two 18-year-olds, kidnapped and murdered the 13-year-old Bobby Franks, immediately killing him and then stuffing his naked body up a culvert. The motive for the crime was simply that they wanted to prove to themselves that they were smart enough to get away with it. The previous ... Full Synopsis
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Brian J. Dillard, AMG Review
The term "cold exercise in style" may as well have been invented for this harbinger of the New Queer Cinema of the early '90s. As far as arty exercises go, though, Tom Kalin's debut feature remains an eminently watchable one. Filmed in high-contrast black-and-white and set to an uneasy orchestral score, Swoon is based on the original "trial of the century" -- the one that also inspired Alfred Hitchcock's ... Full Review
Featured Cast
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Daniel Schlachet
Richard Loeb
Craig Chester
Nathan Leopold, Jr.
Ron Vawter
State's Attorney Crowe
Michael Kirby
Detective Savage
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