In Cold Blood

1967 • 134 minutes

About this movie

IN COLD BLOOD dramatizes actual events and people in a realistic, technically well-crafted fashion, based upon Truman Capote's novel. The movie is a faithful docudrama about the real-life mass murder of the Clutter family, which took place in Holcomb, Kansas on November 15, 1959 by two psychopathic killers. © 1967, renewed 1995 Pax Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Ratings and reviews

The Movie In Cold Blood mirrored the book because the plot was set up the same way. The specific plot allowed the viewers to understand Dick and Perry before the film revealed the motive of the Clutter murder. Dick was greedy, selfish and thought the laws didn’t apply to his charm; the world angered him because he believed it cheated him. Perry was more complex. He had trouble distinguishing between reality and the nightmare of his childhood. He didn’t understand right versus wrong and can be summed up in one word: crazy, but the viewer found sympathy with Perry after watching his past. If the viewers saw the murders at the beginning, they wouldn’t make sense to us. They assume that Dick killed the Clutters because he seemed so villainous and cocky. Perry seemed like a lost puppy who wanted a friend, home or purpose. The flashbacks showed the viewers the crazy and lost side of Perry; the side that killed the Clutters. The murder scene summed up everything in the movie and the plot and the motive finally made sense to them.

A horrific trip back into "the good ole days" where people were just as evil then as they are now. A good reason for why the death penalty exists . Sociopaths can make you like them all the way up to when they cut your throat for 5 bucks.

This movie is stupendous in quality and overall adherence to the book. Yet, though, some license in minor detail variance was used. Absolutely, a must see.