TCM tonight: (NOT my faves.)
8:00 PM -- In Cold Blood (1967)
2h 14m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-14
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
Nominee for Oscars for Best Director -- Richard Brooks, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium -- Richard Brooks, Best Cinematography -- Conrad L. Hall, and Best Music, Original Music Score -- Quincy Jones
The Clutter house is located on a large patch of real estate at the end of a private gravel road, approximately 1/3 of a mile west from the end of Oak Avenue in the rural community of Holcomb, Kansas, and is isolated from other homes. The fourteen-room, four-bedroom, two-story home was built in 1948 at the cost of $40,000, which would equate to approximately $434,000 in 2021. This was an impressive home, especially considering that, at the time, not all of the homes in Holcomb had running water. One could understand why the perpetrators might think that the family was cash rich, but as this was a working farm; most of the Clutter income was put back into the farm and would have served no purpose - and generated no revenue - from being hidden in a fictional safe. As with other businessmen, Herb Clutter ran his business via a checking account. The killers' belief that they would find a huge amount of cash in the house was a childish fantasy that revealed an obvious lack of understanding of the real world.
10:30 PM -- The Boston Strangler (1968)
1h 56m | Suspense/Mystery | TV-14
Federal and local law officers try to catch a deadly serial killer.
Director: Richard Fleischer
Cast: Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy
In reality, DeSalvo confessed to the Boston Strangler murders, and told police facts of the crimes no one but the actual murderer or police would know. There was no physical evidence linking him to the murders however, so DeSalvo was actually convicted on a number of non-murder robbery and sex crimes that still ended up being a life sentence. Many people thought DeSalvo was innocent of the Strangler murders, and continued to believe this, until in 2013, almost 50 years after the last murder, DNA testing confirmed that DeSalvo (who had been murdered in prison in 1973) was the murderer of the last victim, Mary Sullivan. thus linking him conclusively to the murders of the other victims.
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