In 1959, Leopold sought unsuccessfully to block production of the film version of Compulsion on the grounds that Levin's book had invaded his privacy, defamed him, profited from his life story, and "intermingled fact and fiction to such an extent that they were indistinguishable".[1][62] Eventually the Illinois Supreme Court ruled against him,[63] holding that Leopold, as the confessed perpetrator of the "crime of the century", could not reasonably demonstrate that any book had injured his reputation.[4][61]