On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.
Adaptations (2)
In Cold Blood has been adapted into 2 films, from 1967 to 2005. The most recent is Capote (2005).
In Cold Blood1967 · film · 134 min · dir. Richard Brooks · IMDb ↗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.
Capote2005 · film · 114 min · dir. Bennett Miller · IMDb ↗A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".
