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In meeting in Kansas, ex-cons Perry Smith and Dick Hickock are breaking several conditions of their respective paroles. The meeting, initiated by Dick, is to plan and eventually carry out a robbery based on information he had received from a fellow inmate about $10,000 cash being locked in a hidden safe in the home of the farming Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas. After the robbery, they plan on going to Mexico permanently to elude capture by the police. Each brings a necessary personality to the partnership to carry out the plan, Dick who is the brash manipulator, Perry the outwardly more sensitive but unrealistic dreamer with a violent streak under the surface. Perry literally carries all his dreams in a large box he takes with him wherever he goes. The robbery does not go according to plan in any respect, the pair who ultimately hogtie and execute all four members of the Clutter family, only coming away from the home with $43 in cash. As Perry and Dick go on the run, a murder investigation ensues, led by Topeka based Detective Alvin Dewey. If Dewey and his team are able eventually to identify the pair as the murderers and capture them, they, if they understand the two, may get their much needed confessions in dividing and conquering. Perry and Dicks fates may also be regardless of who literally pulled the trigger.
Two young men are ineffectual individually, but when together become violent criminals. They break into a wealthy farmers home only to find that there is nearly no money at the home and murder the entire family to avoid identification. The first part of the film details the search for them, the second, their trial and execution. Taken from the actual events chronicled by Truman Capote in his book.
Robert Blake
Perry
Scott Wilson
Dick
John Forsythe
Alvin Dewey
Paul Stewart
Jensen
Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Harold Nye
Jeff Corey
Mr. Hickock
John Gallaudet
Roy Church
James Flavin
Clarence Duntz
Charles McGraw
Tex Smith
Will Geer
Prosecutor
John McLiam
Herbert Clutter
Ruth Storey
Bonnie Clutter
Brenda Currin
Nancy Clutter
Paul Hough
Kenyon Clutter
Vaughn Taylor
Good Samaritan
Duke Hobbie
Young Reporter
Sheldon Allman
Rev. Jim Post
Sammy Thurman
Flo Smith
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