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In Cold Blood (1967)

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Reviews Counted:24

Fresh:21

Rotten:3

Average Rating:8.2/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 14 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: IN COLD BLOOD is Richard Brooks' stylish and powerful 1967 drama adapted from Truman Capote's novel about a shocking real-life murder case. This daring cinematic portrait employs flashbacks to... IN COLD BLOOD is Richard Brooks' stylish and powerful 1967 drama adapted from Truman Capote's novel about a shocking real-life murder case. This daring cinematic portrait employs flashbacks to fully examine what drives an individual to commit thoughtless and brutal crimes, while using a highly innovative jazz score by Quincy Jones to capture the moody atmosphere. Capote's own role as researcher-narrator of the young criminals' intense friendship, fantasies, and troubled lives is effectively brought to the screen in this striking, groundbreaking drama. Two aimless drifters, Perry Smith (Robert Blake) and Dick Hickock (Scott Wilson), target the home of Kansas businessman Herbert Clutter. After breaking into the house, they find no money, and Smith and Hickock brutally kill the entire Clutter family. They escape the scene of the crime and head for Mexico, but they eventually go back to the States, ultimately returning to Kansas. After being chased for almost a year, the troubled drifters are captured and sentenced to death. [More]

Starring: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Jeff Corey

Starring: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Jeff Corey, Paul Stewart, John Gallaudet, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, James Flavin, Charles McGraw

Director: Richard Brooks

Director: Richard Brooks
Screenwriter: Richard Brooks
Producer: Richard Brooks
Composer: Quincy Jones

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Sep 23, 2003

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One of the most creditable true-crime films ever made. [Blu-ray]

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02/14/09
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

A probing, sensitive, tasteful, balanced and suspenseful documentary-drama.

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04/08/08
Variety Staff
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Exquisitely photographed in wide-screen black-and-white by Conrad Hall.

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04/08/08
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Troubling tabloid headline story that already got the full art treatment from Capote.

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02/25/08
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
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No review available.

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09/29/06
Eric Melin
Eric Melin
Scene-Stealers.com

...worth catching both for its inherent qualities and as a snapshot of Hollywood in transition.

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03/09/06
Andy Klein
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat
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03/04/06
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Hall's bleak vision, his gift for working with darkness and rain, rivals classic film noir of the 1940s and '50s in its visual mastery.

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03/02/06
Kenneth Turan
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Los Angeles Times
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In contrast to Capote, whose obsessive documentation of the pair's every act betrays his fear than he (and his readers) could well do something similar, Brooks explains and sympathises away their act as being unique to them.

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02/09/06
Time Out

Adaptação impecável do clássico de Capote, é um filme psicologicamente denso, soberbamente montado e dirigido e que traz Blake e Wilson em atuações inesquecíveis.

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11/05/05
Pablo Villaca
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11/01/05
Robert Roten
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10/06/05
Chuck O'Leary
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07/23/05
Emanuel Levy
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This movie is so good I moved to Kansas!

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01/08/05
Michael A. Smith
Michael A. Smith
Nolan's Pop Culture Review

Severely overrated and terribly long.

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07/25/04
Christopher Null
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04/02/04
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12/10/03
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07/09/03
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07/07/03
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