The crime that shocked a nation.
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
- Bleak ending
- Graphic violence
- Harm to children
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Grave, earnest, bleak and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- Robert BlakePerry Smith
- Scott WilsonRichard 'Dick' Hickcock
- John ForsytheAlvin Dewey
- Paul StewartJensen
- Gerald S. O'LoughlinHarold Nye
- Jeff CoreyMr. Hickock
- John GallaudetRoy Church
- James FlavinClarence Duntz
- Charles McGrawTex Smith
- Will GeerProsecutor
Crew
- Richard BrooksDirector
- Richard BrooksScreenplay
- Truman CapoteNovel
- Conrad HallDirector of Photography
- Quincy JonesOriginal Music Composer
- Peter ZinnerEditor
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