You can't do Darrow unless you hang your thumbs on suspenders.

The death penalty is not a deterant but a penalty for the ultimate crime

According to CD there should be no consequences for aything, so go do whatever and accept what happens to you. Humanity with this attitude would never leave a cave if we could have found one and able to keep it

Sorry, but I cannot erase from my memory the magnificent Spencer Tracy when he played Clarence Darrow. In comparison, Kevin Spacey is so slight, so small, so frail, so....piddling. That thin high voice, that puny skinny body. No no no. This is not Clarence Darrow.

"Book of love", huh? I'm just trying to imagine what went through Bobby Franks' mind in the last seconds he had on this earth? Where was the "book of love" THEN? ...certainly not in leob and leopold's minds - they thought about the "book of Nietzsche" that made them believe they were so "exceptional" that their existence transcended "petty and human morality". By the same time there was already someone who preached the same pseudo-"ideals". His name was HITLER - so, please! - let's cut the c*** !

As Kevin Spacey is doing this role, I see Spencer Tracy there !

I was given this dvd as a freebee deal with a dvd player at a shop. Discovered K.S and C. Darrow. Many hours of research and entertainment after of both characters. Kev, UK

Corny, effete and schmaltzy by an interminable mile. That self-conscious slouch and hooking of thumbs into the suspenders set him up for a fall. Disappointed after hearing the weighty narration in the American Experience documentary, The Perfect Crime. Corleone, Gangster

Say what you want about Spacey but he knocks it out of the park in every performance. Did the legend of Darrow proud

He needs Clarence Darrow….

Kevin Spacey is a predator. That is clearly true. Kevin Spacey is also a talented actor and gifted comic impersonator. That is also true. One doesn't forgive the other, but it also doesn't make either statement any less true.

2:36 Hitler wanted to experience that very same feeling I heard. Because he was made that way. And yet I can't think of a way worse reason to senselessly kill someone, without reason and without passion. In this regard these 2 Jews are worse than Hitler.

1:06. Better. The world would be better without them. 100% best way to deter cold-blooded murderers is to execute them...Also they actually made a movie about these scumbags?? I hope it wasn't to sympathise with them or I'm gonna move to the mountains.

Darrow was full of shit. They should have hanged them both within a week. The death penalty is just and moral and should stay forever.

what is the name of the movie?

The famous road paved with fine intentions.

Fine words, but wrong,an eye for an eye is ultimately correct.

Great comment “CHRIS RANDLE “HES MIRACULOUS AN ARTISTIC GENIUS ❤

Shakespeare’s Quality of Mercy in his book Merchant of Venice does and can never apply to characters like Gigi and Trudeau. i will show no mercy. Why? - they are not sorry. they will never be. After taking my son: 1. Gigi goes on Jimmy Fallon and make fun of Africans. Even made light of where i was. the arrogance only a psychopath can have. the same arrogance that treats Zayn like a tool to boost her fame and think zero for his mom, the one that brought him to this earth 2. Trudeau used the Queen’s death to mirror Gigi’s making fun of Africans by singing a Queens song in a pub as hundreds lined the streets to pay their last respects There is no comparison to Portia begging Sherlock. I DEMAND MY POUND OF FLEASH! And my son back whilst you are at it. not proof read

I would not have been swayed by this argument.

Was this, a factual … representation? Of a court room????

What a voice, the album is a masterpiece!

Sorry but Leopold and Leob, were psychos,

Did this age well?

Call it... what it is...good music

One of the finest actors.

The death penalty should be abolished. Those who support it and those who carry it out are murderers and cowards. They are by far more evil than those who committed the act. You don't beat up a man whose hands and legs are tied. You don't kill someone who is a prisoner. Oh and to the fella who posted this without permission from the studio,you are in violation of intellectual property laws and I have sent a letter informing them of your transgression.

The is a deeply felt, very well crafted, humble and intelligent portrayal. Bravo Kevin.

if you kill the the mind, you can not prevent the next crime.

let us not be misleaded by emotion, stick to the fact and allow the law to take presidency. they needed to be punishished n

I preferred Orson's.

One of my top 10 albums, a hidden gem

I bought the DVD in High Quality, i am going to be watching this tomorrow . I wanted to know . Is this worth Watching ?

I could watch Chris Cooper making pro-union speeches on repeat lol

Indeed! The show must go on!

Those men should have hung for their crimes, and set an example for future generations that the murder of children will not be accepted in polite society.

Oi

He lost me when he called the murderers "Poor boys"

Orson Wells does the very best version of this piece.

Modules brought me here.

Rod Dearlove's Voices from the Shadows put me on to this beautiful track.

The title track from the excellent 1975 album The Show Must Go On, now this is an artist in the Marvin Gaye league but without the commercial success, Sam sings from the heart with assurance, a must have album

Spacey ain't no Welles...

Welles.....

Could you please add captions to this video? KZbin can do this automatically (and freely). I'd like to use this in class but need captions.

Now that is a doctor who speech

I’m using this in my philosophy class, my students and I always end up having argument, which i think is good.

Must be hard to defend the actions of premeditated murderers. They killed Bobby Franks because they thought they could get away with it and perform the "perfect crime". Had they not been so wealthy they could have never hired Darrow to defend them. Darrow's actual summation lasted days.

Taking away what we are powerless to give is sinful . True , the criminal did take life . But he/she was the criminal. So are we as a society, seek to emulate the actions of the criminal? Spending the rest of his years bearing the weight of what he did to me seems sufficient punishment to fit the crime . Whom among us can be 100% certain of another mans actions and intentions? Even when in concert with what other people had seen . And how many times has entire civilizations , centuries afterwards, admitted that what they practiced was wrong ???

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