
At the end of the 1950s, in a more innocent America, the brutal, meaningless slaying of a Midwestern family horrified the nation. This film is based on Truman Capote's hauntingly detailed, psychologically penetrating nonfiction novel. While in prison, Dick Hickock, 20, hears a cell-mate's story about $10,000 in cash kept in a home safe by a prosperous rancher. When he's paroled, Dick persuades ex-con Perry Smith, also 20, to join him in going after the stash. On a November night in 1959, Dick and Perry break into the Holcomb, Kansas, house of Herb Clutter. Enraged at finding no safe, they wake the sleeping family and brutally kill them all. The bodies are found by two friends who come by before Sunday church. The murders shock the small Great Plains town, where doors are routinely left unlocked. Detective Alvin Dewey of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation heads the case, but there are no clues, no apparent motive and no suspects...

as Agent Alvin Dewey

as Dick Hickock

as Perry Smith

as Roy Church

as Nancy Clutter

as Herbert Clutter




as Hotel Keeper

as Kathy Ewalt






as Sadie Truitt

as Bobby Rupp

as Bonnie Clutter

as Agent Harold Nye

as Eunice Hickock

as Marie Dewey

as Minister

as Clarence Ewalt

as Insurance Salesman

as Little Perry

as Little Perry

as Dorie

as Nun

as Eveanna Clutter

as Beverly Clutter

as Mrs. Ketchum

as Jolene Ketchum

as Flo Smith

as Flo's John

as Ann

as Tommy

as James

as Sheriff

as Undersheriff

as Tailor

as Inez

as Jeb

as Bill

as Kenyon's Friend

as Waitress

as N.Y. Newsman

as Journalist

as Reporter

as Announcer

as Warden

as Chaplain

as Mark Logan

as Detective Pike

as Hangman