Crime of the Century: Leopold & Loeb - Hinge
Genre: Crime
Director: Bennett Miller
Writer: Lon Charles
Cast: Alex Wolff, Nick Robinson, Joseph Fiennes, Paul Sparks, Kristin Lehman, David Arquette, Drew Carey, David Schwimmer and Chris Isaak
Plot: 1958. Older Nathan Leopold (Joseph Fiennes) rides the bus toward Chicago, free for the first time in over 33 years. When the bus arrives in Chicago, he gets off and looks around. The city is a different beast than it was in 1924. He walks down the only somewhat familiar streets until he gets to the Chicago First Church of the Brethren. Leopold knocks at the door and is welcomed inside by Ezra Thomas (Chris Isaak), leader of the congregation. Thomas tells him that he has a bed made up for him in the back of the church building. Leopold walks to the back of the church and finds small cot with a quilted blanket on top of it. Leopold lays on the cot and closes his eyes.
1924. A group of school children on their way to school cut through a vacant lot along a culvert south of Chicago. One of them slips in mud, and while standing up notices a boy laying in the culvert. He goes over to get a closer look, only to find the dead body of Bobby Franks (Gabriel Bateman). The boys run off to call the police from a nearby payphone. It isn't long before police and press alike have descended on the scene. The press crowds around the body, with the police on the scene struggling to push them back away from potential evidence.
Det. Gortland (David Arquette) is busy prepping a squad to stake out the ransom drop-off area when he is informed that a body matching the description of Bobby Franks is waiting to be identified at the morgue. Gortland heads down to the Franks residence and asks Jacob (Paul Sparks) and Maria Franks (Kristin Lehman) to come downtown with him. When they arrive at the morgue, Jacob and Maria break down crying at the site of their dead son. Gortland takes the parents away from the body and offers to drive them back home. As they walk out to the car they are bombarded by press asking about the dead boy. Gortland is furious that word of Franks' body got out to the press so quickly since the ransom pick-up would have still been the easiest way to capture the suspects if they had not been able to learn that the body was discovered. Gortland apologizes to the Franks, and says that he will do everything in his power to catch those responsible and make them fry for what they've done.
Nathan Leopold (Alex Wolff) is walking toward the Loeb residence when he notices several police cars in the neighborhood. When he finally arrives at his destination he finds Richard Loeb (Nick Robinson) beside himself. He says they're screwed now that the body has been found. Leopold tells Loeb to relax - there isn't any physical evidence tying them to the crime scene. As they start to relax, Loeb comments that he was really looking forward to the ransom collection of their plan. Leopold adds that it would have been a nice way of showing their intellectual superiority over the Franks and the police, but that's not going to happen now. Loeb's father, Albert Loeb (David Schwimmer), walks into the room and asks his son if he heard about his cousin Bobby being killed. Loeb nods his head. Albert begins ranting about what the world has come to where children can't even walk home from school without being abducted and butchered by a madman.
Gortland arrives at the culvert where the body was discovered. Looking around at the scene, he sees that countless police officers and press and god knows who else have trudged through the muddy crime scene, making it completely impossible to discern any possible prints from the murderer. He takes a look at the exact location the body was found, but he realizes pretty quickly that the murder didn't happen in the culvert due to the lack of any signs of a struggle. Gortland gets up and begins walking back toward his car when he notices a pair of glasses in a puddle. He carefully collects the glasses and takes them with him. When Gortland gets back to the station, he finds the state attorney Robert Crowe (Drew Carey) waiting for him. Crowe tells Gortland that the Franks are a fairly important family in this town so it is of the utmost importance that they make swift work of the investigation and put the responsible party behind bars sooner rather than later. Gortland shows Crowe the glasses he found at the dump site, saying it is really the only valuable clue found at the site the body was found at. Crowe notices that the glasses have a unique looking hinge mechanism and comments that he doubts too many people have glasses with such a hinge.
While sharing a bottle of vodka, Leopold and Loeb start talking about potential alibis - just in case. They joke about various possibilities, but ultimately decide to say that they were together and took some girls out on the town. That night, Leopold and Loeb go out into a field and burn everything that could possibly tie them to the murder. They burn the clothes they wore that night. As the fire is raging, Leopold goes to his car and grabs the typewriter they stole from the fraternity house and used to write the ransom note. He drops the typewriter onto the flames. The two young men sit with their bottle of vodka and watch as the typewriter burns and melts in the fire.
1924. A group of school children on their way to school cut through a vacant lot along a culvert south of Chicago. One of them slips in mud, and while standing up notices a boy laying in the culvert. He goes over to get a closer look, only to find the dead body of Bobby Franks (Gabriel Bateman). The boys run off to call the police from a nearby payphone. It isn't long before police and press alike have descended on the scene. The press crowds around the body, with the police on the scene struggling to push them back away from potential evidence.
Det. Gortland (David Arquette) is busy prepping a squad to stake out the ransom drop-off area when he is informed that a body matching the description of Bobby Franks is waiting to be identified at the morgue. Gortland heads down to the Franks residence and asks Jacob (Paul Sparks) and Maria Franks (Kristin Lehman) to come downtown with him. When they arrive at the morgue, Jacob and Maria break down crying at the site of their dead son. Gortland takes the parents away from the body and offers to drive them back home. As they walk out to the car they are bombarded by press asking about the dead boy. Gortland is furious that word of Franks' body got out to the press so quickly since the ransom pick-up would have still been the easiest way to capture the suspects if they had not been able to learn that the body was discovered. Gortland apologizes to the Franks, and says that he will do everything in his power to catch those responsible and make them fry for what they've done.
Nathan Leopold (Alex Wolff) is walking toward the Loeb residence when he notices several police cars in the neighborhood. When he finally arrives at his destination he finds Richard Loeb (Nick Robinson) beside himself. He says they're screwed now that the body has been found. Leopold tells Loeb to relax - there isn't any physical evidence tying them to the crime scene. As they start to relax, Loeb comments that he was really looking forward to the ransom collection of their plan. Leopold adds that it would have been a nice way of showing their intellectual superiority over the Franks and the police, but that's not going to happen now. Loeb's father, Albert Loeb (David Schwimmer), walks into the room and asks his son if he heard about his cousin Bobby being killed. Loeb nods his head. Albert begins ranting about what the world has come to where children can't even walk home from school without being abducted and butchered by a madman.
Gortland arrives at the culvert where the body was discovered. Looking around at the scene, he sees that countless police officers and press and god knows who else have trudged through the muddy crime scene, making it completely impossible to discern any possible prints from the murderer. He takes a look at the exact location the body was found, but he realizes pretty quickly that the murder didn't happen in the culvert due to the lack of any signs of a struggle. Gortland gets up and begins walking back toward his car when he notices a pair of glasses in a puddle. He carefully collects the glasses and takes them with him. When Gortland gets back to the station, he finds the state attorney Robert Crowe (Drew Carey) waiting for him. Crowe tells Gortland that the Franks are a fairly important family in this town so it is of the utmost importance that they make swift work of the investigation and put the responsible party behind bars sooner rather than later. Gortland shows Crowe the glasses he found at the dump site, saying it is really the only valuable clue found at the site the body was found at. Crowe notices that the glasses have a unique looking hinge mechanism and comments that he doubts too many people have glasses with such a hinge.
While sharing a bottle of vodka, Leopold and Loeb start talking about potential alibis - just in case. They joke about various possibilities, but ultimately decide to say that they were together and took some girls out on the town. That night, Leopold and Loeb go out into a field and burn everything that could possibly tie them to the murder. They burn the clothes they wore that night. As the fire is raging, Leopold goes to his car and grabs the typewriter they stole from the fraternity house and used to write the ransom note. He drops the typewriter onto the flames. The two young men sit with their bottle of vodka and watch as the typewriter burns and melts in the fire.
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