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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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…
I saw this in the theater when I was 16. Heavy stuff. The scene went longer as Perry's heart slowly stopped beating.
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.
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!
My one and only objection to capital punishment is the danger of miscarriage of justice. But that is a hard one to overcome.
Robert Blake was brilliant in this.
As was Scott Wilson.
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And in real life, got away with murder! How ironic!
It was a really good movie.
I seen to remember Perry asking to use the bathroom so he wouldn’t soil himself. But not in this clip.
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?
😱
It pays to behave.
Question for Perry; Was God in the Clutter house Nov 15 1959?
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.
Hickock was pronounced dead at 12:41 a.m. Smith was pronounced dead at 1:19 a.m.
The character that Robert Blake played didn't say anything before he was executed. However the line is memorable.
Remember this movie coming out. I was young and terrified at the scenes of the poor family.
Wilson and Blake were AMAZING! Scott Wilson underrated, unappreciated.
One thing is for certain those 2 didn’t murder anyone else.
Hell of a book, hell of a 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.
Let me guess, these guys didn’t re-offend.
nice
Brilliant movie.🎥
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.
Ironically, it’s the climb up the stairs that gives the fall the energy to kill you.
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.
Based on a true story,solid movie though disturbing.
The book was better, more nuanced and deeper. Brilliant writing. But this movie was good too
That's Harvey Oberst.
True story.
Brutal
Bungee!!
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.
Should've had Jerry Lee Lewis play the other guy.
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.
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.
жалко людей....
Great movie regardless
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?
Boring
Isn't that a little hard on your neck ? Fooling around like that somebody's going to get hurt😅