

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...
Agent Alvin Dewey

Dick Hickock

Perry Smith

Roy Church

Nancy Clutter

Herbert Clutter

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Hotel Keeper

Kathy Ewalt

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Sadie Truitt

Bobby Rupp

Bonnie Clutter

Agent Harold Nye

Eunice Hickock

Marie Dewey

Minister

Clarence Ewalt

Insurance Salesman

Little Perry
Little Perry
Dorie

Nun
Eveanna Clutter
Beverly Clutter
Mrs. Ketchum

Jolene Ketchum
Flo Smith

Flo's John
Ann
Tommy

James

Sheriff

Undersheriff

Tailor
Inez
Jeb

Bill

Kenyon's Friend
Waitress
N.Y. Newsman

Journalist
Reporter
Announcer
Warden

Chaplain
Mark Logan
Detective Pike
Girl Crying At Funeral
Hangman