Never the Sinner

Never the Sinner depicts the story of Leopold and Loeb – two young millionaire lovers who in 1924, while attending university of Chicago, murdered a fourteen-year-old boy simply for the “thrill of it.” This cinematic play chronicles the dark, deranged yet hauntingly tender world of Leopold and Loeb’s relationship against the media’s sensational coverage of what was then, “the trial of the century,” a trial which is now equally famous for Clarence Darrow’s legendary defense of the boys in the face of city-wide cries for execution.