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In Cold Blood
- Director: Richard Brooks
- Writer: Truman Capote; Richard Brooks
- Producer: Richard Brooks
CGiii Comment
It has subtext simply because Capote wrote the thing - but, any trace of homosexuality has been completely erased from this film.
That old homo-thing wasn't good for business back in the 60s.
It is stylish and well-constructed...but, it is missing that vital spark...truth.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
Robert Blake as Perry;
Scott Wilson as Dick;
John Forsythe as Alvin Dewey;
Paul Stewart as Jensen;
Gerald S. O'Loughlin as Harold Nye;
Jeff Corey as Mr. Hickock;
John Gallaudet as Roy Church;
James Flavin as Clarence Duntz;
Charles McGraw as Tex Smith;
Will Geer as Prosecutor;
John McLiam as Herbert Clutter;
Ruth Storey as Bonnie Clutter;
Brenda Currin as Nancy Clutter;
Paul Hough as Kenyon Clutter;
Vaughn Taylor as Good Samaritan
