In Cold Blood
by Richard Brooks
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Actor: Gerald S. O'Loughlin, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart, Robert Blake, Scott WilsonDirector: Richard Brooks
Brand: BLAKE,ROBERT
Cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall
Producer: Richard Brooks
Writer: Richard Brooks
Editor: Peter Zinner
Writer: Truman Capote
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled); Chinese (Dubbed); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0; Korean (Dubbed); Portuguese (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 134 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-23
Studio: Columbia Pictures
DVD Reviews of In Cold Blood
DVD Review: Each One Needed the Other
Summary: 5 Stars
What can I possibly add to what 71 other reviewers have written? This movie reminded me of the true crime book entitled Judgment Ridge in which two teen-age boys murdered two Dartmouth professors. Each one needed the other in order to carry out the dastardly dark deed. The same is true in the movie In Cold Blood. I watched the movie once, then read the book, and watched the movie once more. Usually when you read a book and watch a movie of the same story significant differences are noticeable. That is not the case here. I found that both the book and movie follow each other very closely. The movie is in glorious black-and-white with both actors, Robert Blake and Scott Wilson, chosen due to their likeness to the actual murderers. As is the situation with murder cases of this sort there are no winners. Six people are needlessly dead which includes the murderers, when their sure-fire scheme to get rich goes awry. It would be profitable if others who are contemplating foolproof, in their minds, schemes could learn from cases such as this the movie will have served its purpose. DVD Review: Classic
Summary: 5 Stars
The hardest thing about watching In Cold Blood is not the voilence of the crime or even the crime itself; although the 1959 murder of the Cutters of Kanssess was particually callous.
The hardest thing is the detachment of the killers both before and after the crime. The murder was quickly planned on a jailbird tip, saying Cutter had 10,000 dollars --1959 money--in his safe. Smith and Hickcock planned to take the money and kill the family, cooling driving into Kanssas to do this.
Both before and after the slaughter, the two seem uneffected, and at first have a grand old time on a shopping spree with stolen checks. These guys are textbook sociopaths, and watching their emotional immunity to their own brutallity is vicerally disquieting.
Seeing this, you could briefly think that Smith was slightly more sympathetic, but I am not buying. According to him, he did not let Hickcock assult the Cutter daughter, but this could have easily been him trying to assign guilt to his partner. He is the one who hogtied the family, and his emotions don't get stirred until the badly planned crime begins to unravel.
The film has a detachment of its own. When both men are hanged for their crimes, the movie ends with the title In Cold Blood, almost as if the picture were an unedited documentry. This is the right approach here. The movie does not moraliize, ever, but lets the crime and how the justice system deals with it speak for itself.
The director can be detached because he trusts you, as a viewer, will not.
DVD Review: Good film, misguided message
Summary: 4 Stars
Truman Capote invented the non-fiction novel with In Cold Blood. The movie is an honest representation of the groundbreaking book, a rarity for Hollywood. This is a good crime story, and a good film with exceptional acting and direction. It's semi-documentary style still holds the viewer's interest.
After extensive interviews, Capote got emotionally close to the murderers. The ex-cons, who had been recently paroled, brutally murdered an entire family in their home. This was a heinous crime. They may have been raised in families that make you search for a word stronger than dysfunctional , but they knew what they were doing and don't deserve the empathy shown by Capote. Joseph Wambaugh repeatedly interviewed the murders in The Onion Field, but managed to portray their hardscrabble background without being overly sympathetic.
DVD Review: Great book and great movie
Summary: 4 Stars
In Cold Blood was a great book so I had to get the ORIGINAL movie - great job on the movie as well!DVD Review: classic
Summary: 4 Stars
Another classic, I just had to include this movie in my viewing diet, and it has now served its purpose. I retire it with satisfaction.
Description of In Cold Blood
The true story of a callous murder of a prosperous and respected Kansas farmer, his wife and two teenage children by two ex-convict drifters.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 1-MAY-2007
Media Type: DVD
Truman Capote's extraordinary nonfiction book about the course of two killers in this world--their lives, their senseless slaughter of an entire family, their executions--was faithfully adapted for the screen in this 1967 film by Richard Brooks (Deadline USA, The Blackboard Jungle). Robert Blake and Scott Wilson are remarkable as the murderers, but what has kept this film special over the decades is Brooks's blunt, clearheaded, and nonsensational approach to the story. (The term "semidocumentary" has been applied to Brooks's style on this film, and it's an entirely fair description.) The experience of watching In Cold Blood is naturally unsettling, but the director--as with Capote--leaves final judgments about justice to the beholder. --Tom Keogh
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