imagine turn out the light in your remote farmhouse on a cold night and and then go to bed . there no need to lock the door . the only sound be the wind whistle through the tree . sometime after midnight a car with light off inch up the driveway . moment later an intruder beam a flashlight into your darkened living room . what make this image so scary be the set represent a remote farmhouse . at night . base on truman capote best sell book and and with b and w light comparable to the best 1940 noir film and in cold blood present a terrify story and especially in that first act and a the plot take place largely at night and on rain drenched country road . it the stuff of nightmare . but this be no dream . the event really happen and in 1959. two con men with head full of delusion kill an entire kansa family and look for a stash of cash that doesn not exist . director richard brook use the actual location where the real life event occur and even the farmhouse . and it interior . it make for a memorable and and haunting and film . both of the lead actor closely resemble the two real life killer . robert blake be more than convincing a perry smith and short and stocky with a bum leg and who dream of find cortez bury treasure . scott wilson be almost as good a dick hickock and the smooth talk con artist with an all american smile . after their killing spree and the duo head to mexico . thing go awry there and so they come back to the u. s. and steal car and hitchhiking and and generally be miserable a they roam from place to place . but it a fool life and and the two outlaw soon regret their action . the film final twenty minute be mesmerize and a the rain fall and the rope tightens and and all we hear be the pounding of a beating heart . even with it somewhat mundane middle act and in cold blood stage in rivet detail a real life story that still hypnotize and nearly half a century later . it that set that do it . do you suppose people in rural kansa still leave their door unlock . at night .