In Cold Blood (1967)
Director: Richard Brooks
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A low-key adaptation of Truman Capote's 'novel of fact' about the murder of a whole family by two disturbed petty criminals, In Cold Blood forever shies away from trying to understand the killers (played by Blake and Wilson). Accordingly, 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.Author: PH
Cast & crew
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart, Gerald S O'Loughlin, Jeff Corey, Charles McGraw full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 134 mins
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