In Cold Blood

Two ex-convicts are tried for the savage killing of a farm family in 1959 Kansas. Based on Truman Capote's book.

Release Date: 2003-09-23,

DVDs. In Cold Blood

IN COLD BLOOD is Richard Brooks' stylish and powerful 1967 drama adapted from Truman Capote's novel about a shocking real-life murder case. This daring cinematic portrait employs flashbacks to fully examine what drives an individual to commit thoughtless and brutal crimes while using a highly innovative jazz score by Quincy Jones to capture the moody atmosphere. Capote's own role as researcher- narrator of the young criminals' intense friendship fantasies and troubled lives is effectively brought to the screen in this striking groundbreaking drama. Two aimless drifters Perry Smith Robert Blake and Dick Hickock Scott Wilson target the home of Kansas businessman Herbert Clutter. After breaking into the house they find no money and Smith and Hickock brutally kill the entire Clutter family. They escape the scene of the crime and head for Mexico but they eventually go back to the States ultimately returning to Kansas. After being chased for almost a year the troubled drifters are captured and sentenced to death.

In Cold Blood (widescreen) (dual-layered Dvd) - Brenda Currin,will Geer,jeff Corey,john Gallaudet,james Flavin,charles Mcgraw,james Lantz,john Mcliam,ruth Storey,vaughan Taylor,duke Hobbie,sheldon Allman,ted Eccles,raymond Hatton,mary Linda Rapelye,ronda Fultz,al Christy,stan Levitt,robert Blake,scott Wilson,john Forsythe,paul Stewart,gerald O'loughlin, richard Brooks - Crime Gone Awry

Crime - general DVD - Richard Brooks wrote and directed this stark black-and-white (with brilliantly evocative cinematography by Conrad Hall) study of two drifters who murder a family, based on Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. The film takes place in Holcomb, Kansas, where four members of the Herbert Clutter family are roused from their sleep and brutally murdered. The killers, Perry Smith (Robert Blake) and Dick Hickock (Scott Wilson), are two ex-cons who plan to rob the Clutters of $10,000 kept in a safe in their home. But Dick and Perry find no safe and no $10,000 and end up leaving the murder scene with only $43. The police, led by Alvin Dewey (John Forsythe) of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, try to track down the killers. Meanwhile, Dick and Perry take off to Mexico, where Perry has fantasies of prospecting for gold. But when his dreams of prospecting come to naught, Dick insists that they return to the United States. Confident that they have left no clues, they cash bad checks, and