| Robert Blake | Perry Smith |
| Scott Wilson | Dick Hickok |
| John Forsythe | Alvin Dewey |
| Paul Stewart | Reporter, Jenson |
| Gerald O'Loughlin | Harold Nye |
| Jeff Corey | Hickock's Father |
| John Gallaudet | Roy Church |
| James Flavin | Clarence Duntz |
| Charles McGraw | Mr. Smith |
| James Lantz | Officer Rohleder |
| John McLiam | Herbert Clutter |
| Ruth Storey | Bonnie Clutter |
| Vaughn Taylor | "Good Samaritan" |
| Duke Hobbie | Young Reporter |
| Sheldon Allman | Rev. Post |
| Ted Eccles | Young Hitchhiker |
| Raymond Hatton | Old Hitchhiker |
| Mary Linda Rapelye | Susan Kidwell |
| Ronda Fultz | Nancy's Friend |
| Al Christy | Sheriff |
| Stan Levitt | Insurance Man |
| Brenda Currin | Nancy Clutter |
| Willow Geer-Alsop | Prosecuting Attorney |
| Richard Brooks | Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| Jack Ahern | Art Director, Set Decoration/Design |
| Robert F. Boyle | Production Designer |
| Geza Gaspar | Special Effects |
| Conrad L. Hall | Cinematographer |
| Quincy Jones | Score Composer |
| Jack Martell | Costumes/Costume Designer |
| Gary Morris | Makeup |
| Peter Zinner | Editor |
| Truman Capote | Source Author |
Anonymous
Posted October 1, 2010
Well, this movie IS NOT an illustrated case for the death penalty. Capote never takes that stand in the book, nor do the filmmaker's here, thank goodness. Bennett Miller's film, Capote, actually inspired me to seek this one out. I was truly impressed. The screenplay and cinematography are both compelling - a singular vision that works beautifully. The photography has a realism and grittiness without the distraction of the more contemoprary "handheld" camera effects. Yet it also displays tenderness and poignancy in the close up shots without becoming maudlin or sentimental. The acting is superb and Quincy Jones' soundtrack gives the film a period authenticity. In all, a compelling classic.
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Posted December 7, 2010
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is a suspensful novel as well as a documentary of a historical crime. The author does a good job of making you feel like you know the characters on a very personal level through great detail and explanations. Capote also explains many of the conflicts tht were encountered while going through the trial process. When the residents of Holcomb found out about the brutal murders of the Clutter family the whole town was in a state of shock. Everyone that lived there all had their suspisions on who the murderer could have been, maybe a next door neighbor for all they knew. People no longer felt secure in their homes, and started taking extra precautions such as locking their doors and keeping their children inside. Some residents even went as far as to move out of the area, because they no longer felt safe.
On a more personal level, this book was not for me. I don't enjoy reading a slow detailed book about a murder case. Since the book was written so detailed you are left always wondering about certain things and left to wait until further along to have your questions answered. The book is well written, and for someone with a lot of patience and time on their hands, have at it.
Anonymous
Posted October 1, 2010
Writer-director Richard Brooks' masterful film takes the same stance as author Truman Capote's original "non-fiction" novel from which the film is drawn, except that Brooks is an engaged observer. He has an apparent admiration for police efficiency, a demonstration for capital punishment equal to his distaste for laws which alternatively save the murderer from execution and offers parole after but a few years. He has sympathy for the victims and for the perpetrators of the crime. By using mostly unknown players who include some of the real-life neighbors of the victims, Brooks enables us to accept his filmic reality without being hampered by familiar faces. On one hand, the audience is spared from viewing the murders in action, as in "Bonnie and Clyde" (also 1967). On the other, the audience is privy to the reaction of the Clutter family when it dawns on each member of the family that none of them will escape. This is all more wrenching because the family obviously is close and the pleas of each to "do what you will with me only spare. . ." is pretty hard to take. Why should such a film be made and a book written? Perhaps because we all find ourselves faced more and more by such senseless slaughter. We need to understand, if we can, some of the causes and to try, if we can, to find a just and equitable solution both for the criminals and for the society on whom they prey. [filmfactsman]
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Posted February 14, 2004
The Crime, against the Clutter Family, in Holcomb,KA, based on the slaughter of an innocent family, because of a lie, that an inmate told another inmate, brings, to all of us.... 'an eye for an eye..a tooth for a tooth..', and brings that instinct home. It shows why the Justice System, came through, for the Clutter Family, although it was too late. This movie should really bolster the thought of an innocent family, slaughtered, on the basis of greed, and shows why we should keep the Death Penalty alive. If you do not believe it now, you will, after seeing this movie, which is very much, word for word, the book, 'In Cold Blood'. There's no sensationalism here, only the truth.
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Posted October 1, 2010
Also a rare instance of a fantastic adaptation of a novel, the only other I can think of being A Clockwork Orange. The real crime here, however, is how Scott Wilson was denied recognition for one of the most natural performances of a criminal I've seen. Will Geer is a contender for Moses after seeing his 2 minute monologue as the prosecutor. Love that raucous jazz cranked during the murder sequence. The main interrogating cop is a hoot, simply replying 'comin' up...' when Wilson dares him to produce usable evidence, like having Rumsfeld playing bad cop.
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