IN COLD BLOOD

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• Release Year: 1967
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Plot: Truman Capote’s best seller, a breakthrough narrative account of real-life crime and punishment, became an equally chilling film in the hands of writer-director Richard Brooks. Cast for their unsettling resemblances to the killers they play, Robert Blake and Scott Wilson give authentic, unshowy performances as Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, who in 1959 murdered a family of four in Kansas during a botched robbery. Brooks brings a detached, documentary-like starkness to this uncompromising view of an American tragedy and its aftermath; at the same time, stylistically In Cold Blood is a filmmaking master class, with clinically precise editing, chiaroscuro black-and-white cinematography by the great Conrad Hall, and a menacing jazz score by Quincy Jones.
• Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Jeff Corey, John Gallaudet, James Flavin, Charles McGraw, Will Geer, John McLiam, Ruth Storey, Brenda Currin, Paul Hough, Vaughn Taylor, Duke Hobbie, Sheldon Allman, Sammy Thurman, Raymond Hatton, Sadie Truitt, Myrtle Clare, Ted Eccles, Al Christy, Don Sollars, Harriet Levitt, Rhonda Fultz, Mary Linda Rapelye, Paul Carr, John Collins, Pamela Crosley, Nick Dimitri, John C. Flinn III, Paul Frees, Roosevelt Grier, Bobby Johnson, Richard Kelton, James Lantz, Stan Levitt, Gerry Okuneff, Bowman Upchurch, Guy Way, Darlene Williams, Odd Williams, Richard Brooks, Truman Capote
• Director: Richard Brooks
• Runtime: 2:15
• Company: Columbia Pictures, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie