In Cold Blood
In a more innocent America, at the close of the 1950s, the nation was horrified by the barbarous, moot slaying of a family. This picture is loosely based on the broadest comprehensive, nonfiction publication that was emotionally penetrating of Truman Capote. While in prison, Dick Hickock, 20, hears a cell mate's narrative about $10,000 in cash maintained by a booming rancher at a property safe. Dick persuades ex-con Perry Smith 20, to join him when he's paroled. Into the Holcomb, Kansas, house of Herb Clutter, Perry and Dick break on a November night in 1959. At finding no safe enraged, they wake the sleeping relatives and savagely kill all of them. The bodies have been located by just two friends who come by before Sunday church. The murders shock the small Great Plains town, where doors have been routinely left unlocked. Detective Alvin Dewey of this Kansas Bureau of Investigation directs the instance, however there are no clues, no apparent motive and no suspects...
Released: 1996-11-24
Genre:
Drama