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
Hotel Keeper
Kathy Ewalt
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