Compulsion

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• Because Orson Welles was having tax problems during the production, at the end of shooting his salary for the movie was garnisheed by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. This upset Welles so much that just before he finished looping his dialogue in post-production, he stormed off the studio and left the country. All that was left to be looped was the last 20 seconds of his end speech in the courtroom. Incredibly, editor William Reynolds (II) fixed this problem without needing Welles. Reynolds took words and pieces of words Welles had spoken earlier in the movie, and pieced them one by one into those 20 seconds.
• Average Shot Length & Median Shot Length = ~11 seconds.
• In his treatment of the Leopold-Loeb case, _Rope (1948)_, Alfred Hitchcock used his famous "ten minute takes" and segued from one to the other with a "natural wipe" generally focusing on the back of one of the character's suit jackets. Perhaps as an homage to The Master, Compulsion director Richard Fleischer uses a "natural wipe" focusing on the front of Bradford Dillman's suit to end a scene.
• Movie Goof (continuity error): When D.A. Horn is interrogating Artie Straus in the hotel room, he sits in a chair and shuts off the lamp next to it. But in the shots of Artie (standing near Horn), the lamp is still lit.