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In Cold Blood (1967)
This docudrama recreates a real life crime in which an entire family was brutally murdered by wandering gunmen. While on the run, the gunmen face not only the realities of their terrible crime but also their own earthly impermanence.
12 January 1913, New York City, New York, USA
22 February 1911, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
10 August 1914, Brooklyn, New York, USA
13 March 1908, New York City, New York, USA
6 May 1942, Helena, Georgia, USA
9 June 1955, Los Angeles County, California, USA
24 January 1918, Alberta, Canada
28 June 1917, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
1 February 1934, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
September 10, 2015
Truman Capote's non-fiction masterwork gets the film noir treatment from director Richard Brooks, with a slow dissection of "a crime that shocked a nation."
January 01, 2000
An uneasy mixture of facile Freudianism and 40s expressionism.
May 20, 2003
Excellent quasidocumentary, which sends shivers down the spine while moving the viewer to ponder.
September 11, 2015
Blake and Wilson give wonderfully natural performances: eerie in their casual attitude to murder but endearing in their open natures. In Cold Blood doesn't judge them but doesn't excuse them.
November 28, 2015
Writer-director Richard Brooks' detached style allows for a non-exploitative presentation, and the contributions by cinematographer Conrad Hall and composer Quincy Jones are first-rate.
December 03, 2015
Chief among the film's distinctions are the beautiful gloom of Conrad Hall's monochromatic cinematography... There are the fearless, wonderfully contrasting performances by Robert Blake and Scott Wilson as the sociopathic killers.
March 02, 2006
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.
September 11, 2015
It's both a "true crime" movie and a poetic account of two young men who, by committing an act of unspeakable brutality, unleash the furies against themselves.
February 09, 2006
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.
June 18, 2002
Brooks' great achievement in the film is to portray Smith and Hickock as the unexceptional, dim-witted, morally adrift losers they were.
April 08, 2008
A probing, sensitive, tasteful, balanced and suspenseful documentary-drama.
July 01, 2016
Visually striking, with two astonishing lead performances, but it never quite plumbs the emotional depths of the Truman Capote source material.