In Cold Blood (1967)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:21
Rotten:3
Average Rating:8.2/10
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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One of the most creditable true-crime films ever made. [Blu-ray] Full Review |
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A probing, sensitive, tasteful, balanced and suspenseful documentary-drama. Full Review |
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Exquisitely photographed in wide-screen black-and-white by Conrad Hall. Full Review |
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Troubling tabloid headline story that already got the full art treatment from Capote. Full Review |
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...worth catching both for its inherent qualities and as a snapshot of Hollywood in transition. Full Review |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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This movie is so good I moved to Kansas!
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Severely overrated and terribly long. Full Review |
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