Chronicle of a crime retold: Looking for Bobby Franks in the Leopold and Loeb films
Published online on June 19, 2025
Abstract
Crime, Media, Culture, Volume 22, Issue 2, Page 347-367, April 2026.
This article examines how the victim is depicted in narrative films that retell the story of a famous crime: Nathan Leopold’s and Richard Loeb’s kidnap and murder of Bobby Franks in Chicago in 1924, retold inRope,Compulsion,SwoonandMurder by Numbers. ...
This article examines how the victim is depicted in narrative films that retell the story of a famous crime: Nathan Leopold’s and Richard Loeb’s kidnap and murder of Bobby Franks in Chicago in 1924, retold inRope,Compulsion,SwoonandMurder by Numbers. ...