In Cold Blood

– A 1967 film based on Truman Capote's book of the same name. After a botched robbery results in the b..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
8.00 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 14 Minutes
Release Year:
1967
In Cold Blood (1967)

A 1967 film based on Truman Capote's book of the same name. After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

In Cold Blood (1967) - Trailer

Release Date:

07 Mar 1968

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Richard Brooks

Writer:

Truman Capote (based on the book by), Richard Brooks (written for the screen by)

Main Actors:

Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart

Plot:

In meeting in Kansas, ex-cons Perry Smith and Dick Hickock are breaking several conditions of their respective paroles. The meeting, initiated by Dick, is to plan and eventually carry out a robbery based on information he had received from a fellow inmate about $10,000 cash being locked in a hidden safe in the home of the farming Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas. After the robbery, they plan on going to Mexico permanently to elude capture by the police. Each brings a necessary personality to the partnership to carry out the plan, Dick who is the brash manipulator, Perry the outwardly more sensitive but unrealistic dreamer with a violent streak under the surface. Perry literally carries all his dreams in a large box he takes with him wherever he goes. The robbery does not go according to plan in any respect, the pair who ultimately hogtie and execute all four members of the Clutter family, only coming away from the home with $43 in cash. As Perry and Dick go on the run, a murder investigation ensues, led by Topeka based Detective Alvin Dewey. If Dewey and his team are able eventually to identify the pair as the murderers and capture them, they, if they understand the two, may get their much needed confessions in dividing and conquering. Perry and Dick's fates may also be regardless of who literally pulled the trigger.

Awards:

Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 5 nominations.

Production:

Columbia Pictures

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
8.0/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
84%
Metacritic:
89%