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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

US Box Office: $0

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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Reviews for In Cold Blood

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4/4

Peter Canavese

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 14 2009 05:15 PM

Groucho Reviews

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Variety Staff

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 08 2008 12:14 PM

Variety

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3.5/4

Exquisitely photographed in wide-screen black-and-white by Conrad Hall.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 08 2008 12:13 PM

TV Guide's Movie Guide

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B

Dennis Schwartz

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 25 2008 08:36 PM

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4/5

Eric Melin

No review available.

comment Comment | Sep., 29 2006 07:26 AM

Scene-Stealers.com

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Andy Klein

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

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 09 2006 01:24 AM

Los Angeles CityBeat

N/R

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 04 2006 03:21 AM

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4.5/5

Kenneth Turan

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 02 2006 05:08 PM

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.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 09 2006 03:16 AM

Time Out

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5/5

Pablo Villaca

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

comment Comment | Nov., 05 2005 08:13 PM

Cinema em Cena

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4/5

Robert Roten

No review available.

comment Comment | Nov., 01 2005 05:23 PM

Laramie Movie Scope

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5/5

Cole Smithey

No review available.

comment Comment | Nov., 01 2005 02:26 PM

ColeSmithey.com

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4/5

Chuck O'Leary

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comment Comment | Oct., 06 2005 01:48 PM

Fantastica Daily

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5/5

Emanuel Levy

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comment Comment | Jul., 23 2005 02:32 PM

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5/5

Michael A. Smith

This movie is so good I moved to Kansas!

comment Comment | Jan., 08 2005 11:45 PM

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3/5

Christopher Null

Severely overrated and terribly long.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 25 2004 08:16 AM

Filmcritic.com

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Robin Clifford

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comment Comment | Apr., 02 2004 01:28 PM

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4/5

Frank Swietek

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comment Comment | Dec., 10 2003 08:05 PM

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4/5

Michael Szymanski

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comment Comment | Jul., 09 2003 03:12 PM

Zap2it.com

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Jon Niccum

No review available.

comment Comment | Jul., 07 2003 08:15 AM

Lawrence Journal-World

 
 
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