Charles starkweather1/31/2024 Tim Roth made for a rather dour, and earnest Charlie Starkweather, and the violence was toned down for the small screen, but still, a fascinating and true-to-the-case depiction of the eight days of terror, and the trials that followed. She played the Caril Ann Fugate role, and she played the hell out of it, shifting from fearful innocence to defensive bad girl in the blink of an eye. What I remember most from this is the performance of a young Fairuza Balk. Murder in the Heartland (mini-series, 1993) Films Inspired by Starkweather/Fugate Image courtesy of O’Hara-Horowitz Productions. So if you’re morbid like me and need something “murdery” to watch but with a quaint 1950s feel, here is a list of five films that explore the murders, and the media coverage of the murders, to a very effective degree. Teenaged killers on the rampage? An innocent family killed? Those are the kinds of headlines that beg to be adapted. ![]() These late 50s murders held the nation transfixed, and over the years the crimes have continued to inspire creators in books, film, and television. Just over a year later, in November 1959, Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Smith invaded the home of the Clutter family in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, and murdered everyone inside: both parents, and their teenaged daughter, and son. To the papers he became a James Dean stand-in, a rebel, and he and Caril shot their way through the Midwest all the way to infamy, a 1950s Bonnie and Clyde. With his even younger girlfriend in tow, Charlie killed eleven people, their ages ranging from a man of seventy to a child, aged two. ![]() Most of the murders took place in just over a week, an eight-day rampage of shootings and stabbings that confounded authorities and terrorized the general public. In December 1957 and January 1958, nineteen-year-old Charlie Starkweather embarked on a killing spree through Nebraska and Wyoming.
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