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In Cold Blood (1967)

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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.

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Storyline

Two young men are ineffectual individually, but when together become violent criminals. They break into a wealthy farmer's home only to find that there is nearly no money at the home and murder the entire family to avoid identification. The first part of the film details the search for them, the second, their trial and execution. Taken from the actual events chronicled by Truman Capote in his book. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>

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murder | police | execution | kansas | robbery | See more »

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7 March 1968 (Argentina)  »

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Truman Capote's In Cold Blood  »

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$3,500,000 (estimated)
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Trivia

The two pairs of eyes pictured on the movie poster are those of the real killers, not the actors portraying them. See more »

Goofs

Many vehicles present in film that were not yet introduced. Vehicles from the 1960s during the events leading to the 1959 crime See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Little girl on bus: 'Scuse me.
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Connections

Referenced in The Golden Girls: To Catch a Neighbor (1987) See more »

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"Row, Row, Row Your Boat"
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Performed a cappella by Robert Blake and Ted Eccles
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Life magazine article May 1967
16 April 2006 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

I was a senior in high school in 1967 when I read a article in the May issue of Life magazine about In Cold Blood. On the front cover was a picture of Robert Blake, Truman Capote, and Scott Wilson. The background for the picture was a desolate Kansas wheat field. I can remember to this day reading about how the film was made in the house that the murders occurred, and even that the horse of Nancy Clutter was used in the film. The Life article showed comparisons of the actors and the actual persons. When the movie was released, I could not wait to go see it. This movie is just as haunting today as it was in 1968.I have seen In Cold Blood many times and will probably see it many more times.........one of my favorite movies of all time............When Robert Blake was going through the trial of the murder of his wife, I could not help but think about his role in this movie..........


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