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In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel [1] by the American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966. It details the 1959 Clutter family murders in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. Capote learned of the quadruple murder before the killers were captured, and he traveled to Kansas to write about the crime.
In Cold Blood (1967 film) – Robert Blake [8] portrayed Smith; Scott Wilson portrayed Hickock. In Cold Blood (1996 TV miniseries) – Eric Roberts portrayed Smith; Anthony Edwards portrayed Hickock. Capote (2005 film) – Clifton Collins Jr. portrayed Smith; Mark Pellegrino portrayed Hickock; Philip Seymour Hoffman portrayed Truman
Perry Edward Smith (October 27, 1928 – April 14, 1965) was one of two career criminals convicted of murdering the four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, United States, on November 15, 1959, a crime that was made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood.
In Cold Blood. Billed as the first "non-fiction novel," In Cold Blood is perhaps Capote's best-known work. The book tells the story of the murder of four members of the Clutter family in a small ...
It was technically fictional—like Capote's previous works, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood—but he based his characters on his actual friends, a group of women affectionately dubbed ...
In Cold Blood is a 1967 American neo-noir crime film written, produced and directed by Richard Brooks, based on Truman Capote's 1966 nonfiction novel.It stars Robert Blake as Perry Smith and Scott Wilson as Richard "Dick" Hickock, two men who murder a family of four in Holcomb, Kansas.
He rose to prominence as an actor when he played Smith in the film adaptation of Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” and won the Emmy in 1975 for his work in "Baretta," a police detective series.
Spanning the years Capote spent researching and writing In Cold Blood, the film depicts Capote's conflict between his compassion for his subjects and self-absorbed obsession with finishing the book. Capote garnered much critical acclaim when it was released (September 30, 2005, in the US and February 24, 2006, in the UK).