I also saw this movie when it first was released. I was a little older, a sophomore in college at the University of of Iowa. Movies with all kinds of blood and gore never bothered me - I guess that’s part of what I went on into medicine. However, this movie, esp the end here, hit me very hard. I still remember walking out after it ended in almost a daze. Watching it again 60 years later, that feeling is still there. Truman Capote made a magnificent, brutal movie with a terrifying end. Hats off to his shade for a perfect show.
There was a famous kidnapping of the 5 year old son of an old multimillionaire about 100 years ago in Kansas and the police asked the local mafia to find the kidnappers and they did in a few hours.
About 100 years ago the 5 year old son of a very old multimillionaire was kidnapped in Kansas and the local police asked the local mafia to find those responsible, they did very quickly.
@@naturalfreq the attorneys for the accused are supposed to be liberal. They are representing their client. And judges are only supposed to uphold the law, so if the law changes so it goes.
For those of you who don't know, the producers approached the owner of the Clutter house and asked permission to film on the property. The owner did better than that and let them film inside the actual Clutter home. That had to be difficult for all the actors involved knowing they stood in the same locations as the Clutter family.
@@anthonycaruso8443 I'm not morally opposed to capital punishment, as long as there is zero doubt about their guilt. The problem is that innocent people have been executed. I'm not sure if the Clutter family would approve of that.
Truman Capote claimed to have a photographic memory. This helped when he was interviewing the killers for the book, especially Perry. He didn't record the conversations or write anything down, so they let their guard down and spoke freely. It's one of the most immersive books I've ever read.
@@Frankie5Angels150I did. Watch carefully. The gallows at the start showed two ropes. Hickock was at 1:32 (he walked up the steps, and they cut to their cutting him down after and him in the morgue truck) then Smith at 3:32 or so (they showed his entire hanging). Addressed each by name.
This film makes as good a case for capital punishment as any other film or documentary. Doesn’t convince me that capital punishment has any place in a modern state.
Ιndeed the death penalty is a horrible remnant of the past and wholy incompatible with democracy and human rights. I am European and glad that the whole of Europe abolished it several decades ago, the only exception being Belarus which is a non-democracy.
I was 17 at the time i saw this movie at the cinema. I didn't think that it made a case for capital punishment. I thought it was neutral on the subject and maybe somewhat against it. After all, Truman Capote on whose book the movie was based was definitely against.
Maybe we should ask the family of the four murdered, what they taught of capital punishment! After all they were the victims, we have the pleasure to watch it all on RUclips and give our two cents worth of a opinion.
@@theo9952 everyone who has opinion on capital punishment, never seems to have a family member murdered! They in my opinion are the only people who can say capital punishment is a good or bad thing
The long winded process shown here amounted to torture, what an appalling and inhumane way of performing what was supposed to be justice. Here in the UK from the executioner entering the condemned cell to the prisoners death (in the adjacent execution room where the hanging was carried out) was as little as 7 seconds. This was an exceptionally quick execution as the condemned almost ran to the gallows so as to die quickly but even so most hangings' were not significantly longer. Even today in the US death by lethal injection is another drawn out procedure followed by a painful and relatively slow death. I think the Russians, of all people, had a better way, they led the prisoner who had not ben told he/she was about to be executed a room which had tiled walls, and a drain in the floor and before they realised what was happening they would be shot in the neck causing instant death.
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I also saw this movie when it first was released. I was a little older, a sophomore in college at the University of of Iowa. Movies with all kinds of blood and gore never bothered me - I guess that’s part of what I went on into medicine. However, this movie, esp the end here, hit me very hard. I still remember walking out after it ended in almost a daze. Watching it again 60 years later, that feeling is still there. Truman Capote made a magnificent, brutal movie with a terrifying end. Hats off to his shade for a perfect show.
For those who didn’t notice: When Perry first looks directly at the hangman, he sees his father’s face. Looks again and sees the actual hangman…
Who did the Clutters see?
I saw this in the theater when I was 16. Heavy stuff. The scene went longer as Perry's heart slowly stopped beating.
Wilson and Blake were AMAZING! Scott Wilson underrated, unappreciated.
Robert Blake bore an uncanny resemblance to Perry Smith.
People were murdered here.
@@anthonycaruso8443 What else is news?
Question for Perry; Was God in the Clutter house Nov 15 1959?
Excellent film. Better than that crappy re-make they did. The real kicker is just before he hangs Perry sees his father as the hangman.
It was a really good movie.
Robert Blake was brilliant in this.
As was Scott Wilson.
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And in real life, got away with murder! How ironic!
Yes he was incredible
The character that Robert Blake played didn't say anything before he was executed. However the line is memorable.
The state of Kansas did not fuck around 9back then.
There was a famous kidnapping of the 5 year old son of an old multimillionaire about 100 years ago in Kansas and the police asked the local mafia to find the kidnappers and they did in a few hours.
About 100 years ago the 5 year old son of a very old multimillionaire was kidnapped in Kansas and the local police asked the local mafia to find those responsible, they did very quickly.
It is more the liberal lawyers and judges.
@@naturalfreq the attorneys for the accused are supposed to be liberal. They are representing their client. And judges are only supposed to uphold the law, so if the law changes so it goes.
Hickock was pronounced dead at 12:41 a.m. Smith was pronounced dead at 1:19 a.m.
Hell of a book, hell of a movie.
It pays to behave.
Robert Blake, great actor.
Look up: Electra Glide in Blue
Remember this movie coming out. I was young and terrified at the scenes of the poor family.
I seen to remember Perry asking to use the bathroom so he wouldn’t soil himself. But not in this clip.
that's because it's not in this clip.
I can't believe the state of Kansas would have allowed filming there, but that looks EXACTLY like the gallows used for the actual hanging.
They filmed the murders in the actual house where the real murders occurred
@@richspinaci8293 That had to be so creepy for the cast & crew.
@@brendafuller907 I remember reading years ago that some of the cast is actually getting the shakes working inside of the house
During Perry hanging the protocol is very accurate. Everything down to how he's being held on the trapdoor to the position of the noose.
@@richspinaci8293 I believe it!
Wow Robert Blake acting as a murderer. Who would have ever thought.
Typecasting
@@thelastjohnwayne OJ?
Robert Blake wasn’t portrayed as a murderer. He portrayed a murderer.
Life imitates art or vice versa?
😱
For those of you who don't know, the producers approached the owner of the Clutter house and asked permission to film on the property. The owner did better than that and let them film inside the actual Clutter home. That had to be difficult for all the actors involved knowing they stood in the same locations as the Clutter family.
My one and only objection to capital punishment is the danger of miscarriage of justice. But that is a hard one to overcome.
Ask the Clutter Family,you do not seem to be to concerned about them
@@anthonycaruso8443 I'm not morally opposed to capital punishment, as long as there is zero doubt about their guilt. The problem is that innocent people have been executed. I'm not sure if the Clutter family would approve of that.
I remember reading Truman's novel, remember Perry's bad habit of chewing aspirin.
Too bad you did not remember the Clutter Family
@anthonycaruso8443 did you know them...?
One thing is for certain those 2 didn’t murder anyone else.
Have been in that house. Clutter was ahead of his time. What a true tragedy
Who did you check with to get permission to enter the house? Just curious...
Amazing that people have lived in the Clutter house all these years. I could never live in a place where such a terrible crime had been committed.
Seen this on talking pictures channel a couple of times , great film .
Appeared to be a very stretchy rope. 🙂
I have read that the executioner would drop a bag of sand one or two times previously, to take the "stretch" out of the rope.
They bought it at the local Walmart.
The book was better, more nuanced and deeper. Brilliant writing. But this movie was good too
The killings were worse.
Truman Capote claimed to have a photographic memory. This helped when he was interviewing the killers for the book, especially Perry. He didn't record the conversations or write anything down, so they let their guard down and spoke freely. It's one of the most immersive books I've ever read.
What them two evil individuals did to the Clutter family was absolutely horrific. They certainly didn't go to heaven. Pure evil
Unlike today they won’t cost us a fortune.
Let me guess, these guys didn’t re-offend.
What a genius!
The book is a very good read.
From what I have heard, Perry Smith had to be dragged up the stairs of the gallows.
Brilliant movie.🎥
Shouldn't they have taken Perry's chewing-gum, from him, before they hanged him, so that he wouldn't choke on it? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
In the book they say he spit it right into the minister guys hand, supposedly he kept it for a good while before finally throwing it away.
Robert Blake was an incredible actor.
But then he's been acting since he was barely out of diapers.
What were Robert Blake's final words? I couldn't understand them.
He said "I think maybe, I would like to apologize ....but who to?"
@@bshaboogie I mean at 3:25, after he looks the hangman in the face.
He said...GULP
@@tomfuller5585 "Is God in this place too?"
@@bshaboogie That's it.
And that's that...
Based on a true story,solid movie though disturbing.
Excellent movie.
Это фильм или на самом деле казнь показали?
Its a film...not a real hanging...
Why didn’t they show both hangings ?
They did. One at a time.
Not in this clip
@@patrickb5197 dunno, I saw it in this clip
@@hgc5293
No you didn’t.
@@Frankie5Angels150I did. Watch carefully. The gallows at the start showed two ropes. Hickock was at 1:32 (he walked up the steps, and they cut to their cutting him down after and him in the morgue truck) then Smith at 3:32 or so (they showed his entire hanging). Addressed each by name.
Brilliant movie
This film makes as good a case for capital punishment as any other film or documentary. Doesn’t convince me that capital punishment has any place in a modern state.
Ιndeed the death penalty is a horrible remnant of the past and wholy incompatible with democracy and human rights. I am European and glad that the whole of Europe abolished it several decades ago, the only exception being Belarus which is a non-democracy.
I was 17 at the time i saw this movie at the cinema. I didn't think that it made a case for capital punishment. I thought it was neutral on the subject and maybe somewhat against it. After all, Truman Capote on whose book the movie was based was definitely against.
Maybe we should ask the family of the four murdered, what they taught of capital punishment! After all they were the victims, we have the pleasure to watch it all on RUclips and give our two cents worth of a opinion.
@tcod3137
How can you ask the dead victims ? And what difference would it make to them if their murderers are executed or not ?
@@theo9952 everyone who has opinion on capital punishment, never seems to have a family member murdered! They in my opinion are the only people who can say capital punishment is a good or bad thing
That's Harvey Oberst.
Awesome Movie. Murder in The First Degree. 🦅🌎⚓
OMG!! They're smoking
True story.
The long winded process shown here amounted to torture, what an appalling and inhumane way of performing what was supposed to be justice. Here in the UK from the executioner entering the condemned cell to the prisoners death (in the adjacent execution room where the hanging was carried out) was as little as 7 seconds. This was an exceptionally quick execution as the condemned almost ran to the gallows so as to die quickly but even so most hangings' were not significantly longer.
Even today in the US death by lethal injection is another drawn out procedure followed by a painful and relatively slow death.
I think the Russians, of all people, had a better way, they led the prisoner who had not ben told he/she was about to be executed a room which had tiled walls, and a drain in the floor and before they realised what was happening they would be shot in the neck causing instant death.
Should've had Jerry Lee Lewis play the other guy.
Horrific true story 😡
Ironically, it’s the climb up the stairs that gives the fall the energy to kill you.
What are you trying to say?
13 steps. That's why 13 is considered unlucky.
жалко людей....
Brutal
Still trying to figure out why they had to wear those stupid harnesses for a hanging.
Because they were afraid of them?
Do you mean the hood? Helps keep the mess contained instead of spurting out.
@@michaelbishop8298 No, he means the harness and chains around their torso, to which their handcuffs are secured.
Keep you from grabbing the rope ?
@@BobHansen-ik1ln …or the hatch?
The Clutter family were full of themselves.
And? What a purely genius comment, nitwit!
Great movie regardless
Bungee!!
Bungee jumping, New Zealand!
Boring
you're boring.
Isn't that a little hard on your neck ? Fooling around like that somebody's going to get hurt😅
Well that’s a stretch.