Swoon

Swoon, motion picture about two men who kill a young boy to see if they can get away with it, based on the Leopold-Loeb murder case of 1924. Released in 1992, the film won an award at the Sundance Film Festival for cinematography. Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold are young, very rich, and homosexual. They get caught after they kill a boy and send a ransom note to his parents. Their attorney Clarence Darrow (played by Robert Read) argues in court that their sexuality is a form of mental illness and asserts that, since they are insane, they should not get the death penalty. Two other movies are based on the Leopold-Loeb murder case, Rope (1948) and Compulsion (1959).

Director

• Tom Kalin

Cast

• Daniel Schlachet (Richard Loeb)
• Craig Chester (Nathan Leopold, Jr.)
• Ron Vawter (State's Attorney Crowe)
• Michael Kirby (Detective Savage)
• Michael Stumm (Doctor Bowman)
• Valda Z. Drabla (Germaine Reinhardt)
• Natalie Stanford (Susan Lurie)
• Isabela Araujo (Venus in Furs diva)
• Jill Buchanan (Venus in Furs diva)
• Mona Foot (Venus in Furs diva)
• Trash Trasharama (Venus in Furs diva)
• Nashom Wooden (Venus in Furs diva)
• Peter Bowen (Industrial area worker)
• Ryan Landry (Ivory)
• Christopher Hoover (Elektra Luxe)
• Paul Connor (Bobby Franks)
• Brent Charleton (Irving Hartman)
• Christopher Cangelosi (Little boy in park)
• Dick Callaghan (Country worker)
• Craig Paull (Country worker)
• Carlos Rodriguez (Country worker)
• Emmitt Thrower (Country worker)
• Eric J. Wiggins III (Country worker)
• Ken Howarth (Sven Englund)
• Barry Liebowitz (Mr. Franks)
• Judith Boxley (Mrs. Franks)
• Julian Marynczak (Worker in marsh)
• Daniel Haughey (Ornithologist)
• John Rowan (Man with newspaper)
• Stanley Taub (Mr. Loeb)
• Robert Austin (Allan Loeb)
• Barbara Bleier (Mrs. Loeb)
• Ed Altman (Mike Leopold)
• John A. Mudd (Detective Sbarbaro)
• Robert Sullivan (Night desk officer)
• Verne F. Hoyt (Night police officer)
• James Cummings (Interrogation officer)
• Pepe Vives (Night detective)
• Malcolm A. Beers, Jr. (Nathan Leopold, Jr.)
• Adina Porter (Stenographer)
• Robert Read (Clarence Darrow)
• Paul Schmidt (Judge Caverly)
• Richard Elovich (Doctor Hulbert)
• Christie MacFadyen (Reporter)
• Robert McKanna (Reporter)
• Bobby Reed (Reporter)
• Mark Simpson (Bailiff)
• Ray Wasik (Mean prison guard)
• Jim Crawford (Prison barber)
• Jean Claude Monfort (Clinic doctor)
• Michael Nesline (Clinic doctor)
• Richard R. Upton (Clinic doctor)
• William Walters (Clinic doctor)
• Richard Schechner (Radio announcer)
• Burt Wright (Warden)
• Glenn Backes (James Day)
• Paul Rubin (Father Weir)
• Philip Stanton (Gene Lovitz)
• Dean C. Blanco (Courtroom extra)
• Catarina Borelli (Courtroom extra)
• Barry Cassidy (Courtroom extra)
• David Cheever (Courtroom extra)
• James Crafford (Courtroom extra)
• Steven Flum (Courtroom extra)
• Lou Galiardo (Courtroom extra)
• Carl M. George (Courtroom extra)
• Debra Goodman (Courtroom extra)
• Joseph Harding (Courtroom extra)
• Anna Kohler (Courtroom extra)
• Heidi Kriz (Courtroom extra)
• Scott K. MacArthur (Courtroom extra)
• John McGee (Courtroom extra)
• Dana Nasrallah (Courtroom extra)
• Jerome F. Richards (Courtroom extra)
• Hobson Sturtevant (Courtroom extra)
• Elizabeth Towson (Courtroom extra)
• Oscar Aleman (Press conference extra)
• Emanuel Baetich (Press conference extra)
• Robert Beck (Press conference extra)
• Mike Diaz (Press conference extra)
• Maddy Lederman (Press conference extra)
• Tanya Taylor (Press conference extra)
• Gary Lamadore (Interrogation officer)
• Michael Becker (Phrenology head)
• Zoe Bissell (Phrenology head)
• Gregg Bordowitz (Phrenology head)
• Patricia Fabricant (Phrenology head)
• Todd Haynes (Phrenology head)
• Andrea Kislan (Phrenology head)
• Pamela Koffler (Phrenology head)
• Nina Port (Phrenology head)
• Emily Sherman (Phrenology head)
• Lauren Zalaznick (Phrenology head)
• Robert Funes (Prisoner)
• Timothy McCoy (Prisoner)
• Owen H. Ranft (Prisoner)
• Elion Sacker (Prisoner)
• Robert Vazquez (Prisoner)
• Alex Vean (Prisoner)
• Addison Cook (Prison guard)
• Douglas Leland (Prison guard)
• John Ventimiglia (Prison guard)
• Douglas Crimp (Prison mugshot)
• Phelim Dolan (Prison mugshot)
• Jim Lyons (Prison mugshot)

Awards

• Sundance Film Festival Award for Excellence in Cinematography (1992): Tom Kalin, Ellen Kuras