Analysis of the film version of In Cold Blood

Director Richard Brooks' film, In Cold Blood has been characterized as a brutally realistic account of the senseless, random murders of four members of a Kansas family by two young killers (Day, 2002). The 1967 film was based on Truman Capote's nonfiction novel of the same name. On the night of November 15, 1959, two young men named Perry Smith and Dick Hickock invaded the home of Herbert Clutter. Smith and Hickock believed that Clutter had $10,000 in a wall safe in his home. When the young men failed to find the money or a safe, they savagely slaughtered Clutter, his sick wife, his teenage daughter, and his son. They left the scene with less than $10.

At issue is the question of whether the murders committed in the

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