Bibliomania: In Cold Blood with Truman Capote, Part 1

[danbeatless]

POOR, PRETTY NANCY CLUTTER!! I MEAN IT! THE ACTRESS PORTRAYING HER IS BRENDA CURRIN, NOT AS PRETTY AS IN THE SHE WAS IN THE FILM, BUT STILL PRETTY SHE WRITES "MY HANDS AND FEET WERE TIED"!!!

[MeredithOD]

Just started reading it :-)

[dirkbogarde44]

Apart from the annoying wind background noize, this is pretty well put together and very informative.

[Iamkl132]

If you want to watch the whole of this 1967 film adaptation, you can now on my youtube channel - though it's divided into 9 parts, sorry.

[danbeatless]

SO hard to see this familt slaughtered by these madmen. It breaks my heart to see Nancy Clutter begging Perry Smith (Robert Blake) not to kill her.

 I, too, am a fan of Capote's.

[Coyotalia]

@danbeatless I loved the book "In Cold Blood". It was really sad and eerie but a very good read. Really reminds you of how lucky you are to be alive.

[mrshurley10]

I first heard about the Clutter Family Murders in high school in a class I took. We read the book then saw the movie. Ever since then I've been so interested in Capote and the Clutter Family story. I bought the book and have probably read it over 100 times. Capote had such a great mind!!

[cpdusmcdst9]

that is a nice 1st edition at 139 if its yours cherish it

[brahud]

I live in Wichita, KS....this story still happens but he was the first one to make people realize it happens. In New York it would be another day....but when you add the "seasonings" of bigotry and traditionalism (republican) views.....for a people that don't want to change....you find a sad, but true, story.....

[greeniem]

the voice you heard reading was not a woman LMAO

[cheyennebritbrat]

his voice reminds me of ottis toole

[iamthemaster100000]

When you wrote "with Truman Capote" I did a double take. Capote is the most awesome writer in my opinion anyway, in HISTORY.

And I'm the only person I know who has heard of him......

[bexisfab]

i only ever felt sorry for perry. not hickock, i felt almost no sypmathy towrds him.

[njpavid22]

@bexisfab

Exactly - Bill had all the advantages compared to Perry. Maybe Bill wasn't wealthy but he was in a loving family, athletic, intelligent, poor but never destitute. Perry was abused, neglected, and lead a tortured life. I felt sorriest for the family - imagine Bonnie hearing the 3 shots and knowing what must have happened.

[nocontrol06]

@bexisfab why? wasnt it perry who shot them all?

[SmervinMervin24]

@bexisfab Of course you did. Even though he killed absolutely nobody and Perry did all the killing. But the way Capote portrayed Perry, he was almost like a marauder (but he was actually just a murderer).

[CalebBart98]

@SmervinMervin24 Perry did not do all of the killing if actually read the book Perry only said that bc he liked Dicks parents

[CalebBart98]

@bexisfab same a hickock was a dick especialy since he denied that he killed and attempted to rape Nancy Clutter

[barnesvilleman1]

my moms sisters grew up with the clutter family

[INOCENTBDGRL]

Really? Was she around at the time of the murders?

[barnesvilleman1]

@INOCENTBDGRL im not sure if they were they never talked about it

[INOCENTBDGRL]

I guess it's hard. Even after all these years it must still be hard. So sad.

[riversmyst]

A documentary on the Clutter murders is difficult to find. You did an admirable job. I read the book the first time in 6th grade and have been interested in this case since then.

[longlivechrisnSyri]

The park you're standing in front of, they just put a beautiful memorial to the Clutters there, and renamed and dedicated the park to them.

[Dav68Chs]

Regardless of Truman's motives in writing the book, it was an amazing story and made an incredible movie about the tragic deaths of the Clutter family; a story I believe should have been told showing they were real people with real lives that were senslessly and horribly cut short. Dick and Perry were guilty and deserved to be put to death. Many are against the death penalty, but I cannot imagine if a family member of mine were murdered, what I may do to the murderer(s)...I'd be out for blood.

[owlrun]

Thanks Blacksheepro.

[RichardDdog]

umh no life!!

[tank0788]

I live only 15 miles away from holcomb and it is a very interresting story to hear about and to live so close to were it took place

[busdriver357]

2 men at close range blew off the faces of 4 innocent people,before that they psyschologically

tortured the clutters.hickock and smith were executed for this grossly inhuman act,btw they

got 5and a half years of life the clutters never got

to ever have. 2 teenagers who never ,ever got to

live there lives

[Iamkl132]

I just finished reading it. I became interested in it after I realised one of my favourite songs -Bad Religion Honest Goodbye was inspired by it. It's a really strange book, whether the death penalty is the answer I have no idea, I got goose bumps after they were hanged and the book ended. Somehow I felt bad for feeling bad for the convicts.

[iamjuliaboyle]

whose the narrator?

[busdriver357]

this is so sad that poor family,at least they

were hanged

[busdriver357]

truman capote would be too drunk to notice or drugged out

[Sakartvelo69]

what? to drugged to notice you're a fascist? That only shows how badly you need to read him!! For your information, one of the running themes of the novel is a protest against the death penalty

[vonspre]

I agree.

Poor busdriver357.haha.Poor...

[Patrick1Bateman]

i dont even know what you're talking about but Poor busdriver357.haha.Poor...

[vonspre]

Get lost!

[Patrick1Bateman]

busdriver357.haha.Poor...

[busdriver357]

i dont care what truman capote would have thought

and i read the book 3 times before you were ever born

also i think perry and dick were given justice; and i dont need a self important wanna be intellectual thinks

btw the string theory has never been proven yet they

really arent sure what the smallest part of matter is you self important wind bag of useless knowledge

[Sakartvelo69]

you cant even think straight, nor express yourself. Who cares about string theory anyway...we're talking about justice here. I am no lefty, Dick and Perry killed and they deserved punishment because no one has the right to kill and that includes the government. Of course, I believe that they should have been given life imprisonment even because they were a danger to society. But killing them makes a mockery of the law itself.

[adamspun]

@busdriver357 lol u tell em!

[torresdiego60]

GOOD JOB BUDY

[noway222]

truman capote is one of my favorite authors. my love of research is all thanks to him.

[Jantv81]

I would NOT want to live in that house, just because of what happened.

[vanessak69]

Very informative. Thanks for doing this.

I've seen both the movies ("Infamous" was the better one in my opinion.) It's amazing how far the tragedy spreads when something like this happens-even to Capote himself since he never finished another novel.

[Dav68Chs]

I wondered also why they used a different house, and so obviously not the real house; but they also did not have the character 'Nancy Ewalt'...she was named something else.

[psatm]

I wonder why the movie 'Capote' shows such a different house. In the movie it's a two-story farmhouse, taller and more narrow. This home looks to be two story, but much different design.

[Creolelady281]

The film makers were on a tight budget so they filmed everything in Canada

[Ajtlawyer]

@psatm The first movie was filmed in the actual house which the suriviving Clutter daugthers had sold to a third party. Nancy's horse Babe was also in the movie. Other locations in the movie---where the killers stopped for gas, to eat dinner, to buy the rope, etc. were the real locations. The courtroom scenes were filmed in the actual courtroom and 7 of the original jurors were in the jury box.

[Dav68Chs]

I first red the book In Cold Blood in high school, more than twenty years ago. The book grabbed me then and it's been a story I cannot get out of my mind. A horrible, unimaginable tragedy made for a great read, a wonderful movie and a reminder of the precious lives that were lost.

[Creolelady281]

One of the greatest books that was ever written

[Gruesche]

the backgroundmusic is so annoying

[italmarky]

Truman Capote was amazing , I loved in cold blood

[joseluis3]

Maestro Truman Capote !!!

[irish42matic]

I visited a friend in Garden City and drove to the home, What an experience... stopped at the driveway of Chinese Elms.. I expected much more, but the small towm of Holcomb is as it is... Like nothing happened. Kind of strange to me, but very Mid-west... Can't explain the experience...

[issick1]

Yeah I use to live in Holcomb now I live just a couple miles east. I've been in the Clutter house and there is no blood stain in the basement sorry.

[sandyfrazier9]

Thanks for this video! I really enjoyed it. Esp. the Capote readings.

[Jantelover]

fabulous work... you just saved me a trip... i mean this place is almost as mythical as dorothy's house... doesnt quite seem real.. you did a great job... this tragedy occurred while i was in the womb and the film moved me even as a child.. thanks!

[shawn3321555]

Great presentation and treatment of subject! I have read almost everything Capote wrote except for IN COLD BLOOD. One of the best American writers of the last century--in my opinion. And probably a genius as evidenced by his earlier writing.

[ChiliRP]

VERY WELL DONE

[VioletteRose]

I'm a huge Capote fan!!

[dskiraider]

Very interesting video. In Cold Blood is an outstanding book and very well done movie. I've watched both Capote and Infamous. I thoroughly enjoyed both films.  Both Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toby Jones gave great performances. I liked Jones' portrayal a little better.

[hanley1966]

great stuff, i,ve been a capote devotee for years, glad i,m not the only one, any fans feel free to chat

[Branko37]

Took the Southwest Chief through Garden City the other day and felt the chills when I thought of the Clutters. Thanks for the interesting video and keep up the good, important work.