Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
- murder
- true crime
- farmer
- gay theme
- psychological drama
- tragic
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Robert Blake
Perry Smith
Scott Wilson
Richard 'Dick' Hickcock
John Forsythe
Alvin Dewey
Paul Stewart
Jensen
- Gerald S. O'Loughlin — Harold Nye
- Jeff Corey — Mr. Hickock
- John Gallaudet — Roy Church
- James Flavin — Clarence Duntz
- Charles McGraw — Tex Smith
- Will Geer — Prosecutor
- John McLiam — Herbert Clutter
- Ruth Storey — Bonnie Clutter
- Brenda Currin — Nancy Clutter
- Vaughn Taylor — Good Samaritan
- Duke Hobbie — Young Reporter
- Directed
- Richard Brooks
- Written
- Richard Brooks
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 438 ratings
- Studio
- Pax Enterprises, Columbia Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
