In Cold Blood
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In Cold Blood

★ 6.1/10 TMDB Premiered 1996-11-24 1 season 2 eps

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...

Last Episode Aired 1996-12-01
S1E2 — Part 2

Part II of miniseries. Based on Truman Capote's true-crime classic and nominated for two Primetime Emmys, "In Cold Blood" follows a pair of ex-cons (Anthony Edwards and Eric Roberts) who brutally murdered a respected Midwestern rancher and his family in a crime that held a grim fascination for 1950s America.

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Sam Neill
Sam Neill
Agent Alvin Dewey
Anthony Edwards
Anthony Edwards
Dick Hickock
Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts
Perry Smith
Don S. Davis
Don S. Davis
Roy Church
Margot Finley
Margot Finley
Nancy Clutter
Kevin Tighe
Kevin Tighe
Herbert Clutter
L.Q. Jones
L.Q. Jones
Troy Evans
Troy Evans
Campbell Lane
Campbell Lane
Stella Stevens
Stella Stevens
Hotel Keeper
Emily Perkins
Emily Perkins
Kathy Ewalt
Brad Greenquist
Brad Greenquist
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