In Cold Blood

Grim, violent drama based on an actual 1959 Kansas case in which a family of four was murdered by a pair of petty criminals. The film explores the backgrounds of the event, following the activities of the family and of the two young drifters as their paths gradually converge on the day of the killings. The disturbing aftermath of the crime is also recounted. Based on the ‘non-fiction novel’ researched and written by Truman Capote., Richard Brooks chilling film, based on the award winning book by Truman Capote, recounts the real life murders committed in 1959 by Dick Hancock and Perry Smith (Scott Wilson and Robert Blake), two delinquents who meet up and drift through America committing petty crimes until they end up in Kansas and the farmstead of the Clutter family. Their cold-blooded slaughter of the family sent shockwaves through America but the film, while never exculpating them, offers an insight into the lives and minds of the two young men that led them to their crime, capture, conviction and execution., Adaptation of Truman Capote’s fact-based crime novel about two drifters who attempt to rob a farmhouse and end up murdering a rural family. Richard Brooks was nominated for Best Director and his script was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay., Two drifters murder a family after a botched robbery and go on the run from the police while coming to terms with the repercussions of their crime., Robert Blake and Scott Wilson in Richard Brooks’ semidocumentary about two youths who murdered the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959., Adaptation of Truman Capote’s book about two youths who murdered the Clutter family in Kansas in 1959., This bleak drama, based on Truman Capote’s bestseller, focuses on ex-cons Perry and Dick. The men are making their way across the heartland and believe that a local family, the Clutters, is stashing $10,000 in their home. After brutally killing the family, the two men flee — without the $10,000.