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In Cold Blood

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In Cold Blood
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R,2hrs 13min
Genres:
Drama,Documentary
Release:
1967
Director:
Richard Brooks
Distributor:
Columbia Pictures
Starring:
Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe  ...more
Synopsis: Richard Brooks wrote and directed this stark black-and-white (with brilliantly evocative cinematography by Conrad Hall) study of two drifters who murder a family, based on Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. The film takes place in Holcomb, Kansas, where four members of the Herbert Clutter family are roused from their sleep and brutally murdered. The killers, Perry Smith (Robert Blake) and Dick Hickock (Scott Wilson), are two ex-cons who plan to rob the Clutters of $10,000 kept in a ... Full Synopsis
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Mark Deming, AMG Review
Director Richard Brooks stripped away the outer layers of literary artifice for his screen adaptation of Truman Capote's "non-fiction novel" about a multiple murder in Kansas and instead captured the book's core: a painstakingly researched and breathtakingly detailed account of a crime that had terrible consequences and no real point. Aiming for as realistic and "non-Hollywood" an approach as possible, ... Full Review
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Robert Blake
Perry Smith
Scott Wilson
Dick Hickok
John Forsythe
Alvin Dewey
Paul Stewart
Reporter, Jenson
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