Word: coldbloodedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The showplace farm of Herbert Clutter, set in the peaceful, prosperous, picture-book country west of Garden City, Kans. (pop. 11,000), seemed the nation's least likely setting for coldblooded, methodical murder. And the Clutter family seemed the nation's least likely victims. Herb Clutter, 48, a...
Gazing into his crystal ball in Raleigh, N.C., New York's ex-Democratic Governor W. Averell Harriman, 67, no longer a presidential candidate, predicted with no ifs or buts that Vice President Richard Nixon will be next year's Republican nominee: "He's going to get nominated...
Most of the famous gunmen of the Old West would provide their romantic armchair admirers with some unpleasant surprises. Billy the Kid, of sentimental memory, was a psychopathic killer who dropped most of his 21 victims from ambush or tampered with their guns before he picked a fight; and he...
One (Martin Balsam), for instance, is a phys. ed. instructor in a city high school, 30-some, decent and a little dumb. Three (Lee J. Cobb) is the boss of a messenger service, a dispositional bully who would rather punch somebody than stand up to his own problems. Four (E...
The Bad Seed (Warner) offers moviegoers a new sort of murderer: a crafty, coldblooded, eight-year-old blonde. Pig-tailed Patty McCormack has beautiful manners, a sweetly sensitive mother (Nancy Kelly) and a doting father (William Hopper). But accidents happen to the people around her. There was the nice old...