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Watch the 1996 adaptation of Truman Capote's true-crime classic, starring Anthony Edwards and Eric Roberts as the killers of a Kansas family. The four-hour drama follows the investigation, the trial and the aftermath of the brutal crime.
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In Cold Blood is an American true crime drama television miniseries directed by Jonathan Kaplan and written by Benedict Fitzgerald. It is based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Truman Capote, which reconstructs the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas.
Season 1. Season 2. Season 3. Oldest First. After two successful seasons, In Cold Blood returns with more compelling stories inspired by true events in Singapore. Ep 1 I Killed My Mother. 23 mins. A quarrel with his mother over a misplaced bracelet led to her tragic death.
- Keagan Kang
- 2013
- documentary, drama, info-ed
In Cold Blood is an English-language television docu-drama telecast on MediaCorp Channel 5, with each episode re-enacting a major violent crime in Singapore. The series first premiered on Channel 5 in 2011.
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Herbert "Herb" Clutter was a prosperous farmer in western Kansas. He employed as many as 18 farmhands, who admired and respected him for his fair treatment and good wages. His two elder daughters, Eveanna and Beverly, had moved out and started their adult lives; his two younger children, daughter Nancy, 16, and son Kenyon, 15, were in high school. ...
On the basis of a tip from Wells, who contacted the prison warden after hearing of the murders, Hickock and Smith were identified as suspects and arrested in Las Vegas on December 30, 1959. Both men eventually confessed after interrogations by detectives of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. They were brought back to Kansas, where they were tried ...
During the first few months of their trial and afterward, Hickock and Smith's murder case went unnoticed by most Americans. It was not until months before their executions that they became "two of the most famous murderers in history."[citation needed] On 18 January 1960, Time magazine published "Kansas: The Killers", a story about the murders. Ins...
Capote became interested in the murders after reading about them in The New York Times.He brought his childhood friend Nelle Harper Lee (who would later win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird) to help gain the confidence of the locals in Kansas. Capote did copious research for the book, ultimately compiling 8,000 pag...
In Cold Blood was first published as a four-part serial in The New Yorker, beginning with the September 25, 1965, issue. The piece was an immediate sensation, particularly in Kansas, where the usual number of New Yorker copies sold out immediately. In Cold Blood was first published in book form by Random Houseon January 17, 1966. The cover, which w...
Writing for The New York Times, Conrad Knickerbocker praised Capote's talent for detail throughout the novel and declared the book a "masterpiece"; an "agonizing, terrible, possessed, proof that the times, so surfeited with disasters, are still capable of tragedy." In a controversial review of the novel, published in 1966 for The New Republic, Stan...
Three film adaptations have been produced based upon the book. The first focuses on the details of the book, whereas the later two explore Capote's fascination with researching the novel. In Cold Blood (1967) was directed by Richard Brooks and stars Robert Blake as Perry Smith and Scott Wilson as Richard Hickock. It features John Forsythe as invest...
General references
1. Clarke, Gerald (1988). Capote, A Biography (1st ed.). New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-241-12549-6. 2. Davis, Deborah (2006). Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball (1st ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-09821-9. 3. McAvoy, Gary (2019). And Every Word Is True (1st ed.). Seattle, WA: Literati Editions. ISBN 978-0-9908376-0-2. 4. Waisbord, Silvio (2000). Watchdog Journalism in South America: News, Accountability, and...
In Cold Blood, Part I: "The Last to See Them Alive" in The New Yorker (September 25, 1965); the three subsequent installments are available in synopsis only:In Cold Blood, a Legacy in Photos Archived February 25, 2009, at the Wayback MachinePhotos of the first edition of In Cold Blood- Trauman Capote
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A TV mini series based on Truman Capote's book about the true story of a murder in Kansas. See the full list of actors, directors, writers, producers, and other crew members who worked on this adaptation.
