In Cold Blood (2-DVD) R

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  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 14 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 17, 2015
  • Originally Released: 1967
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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...Superbly shot in black-and-white...
Total Film
Nov 1, 2003
Rating: 4/5 -- 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." Full Review
Times (UK)
Sep 10, 2015
Rating: 4/5 -- Capote's non-fiction novel brooded on the sheer pointless nightmare, and so does the film, to some extent; the killers' casual excitement at the prospect of murderous violence is still chilling. Full Review
Guardian
Sep 10, 2015
Rating: 3.5/5 -- Like another great crime story rooted in truth, Dead Man Walking, it refuses to depersonalize the victims or elide their suffering Full Review
1More Film Blog
Feb 14, 2019
A probing, sensitive, tasteful, balanced and suspenseful documentary-drama. Full Review
Variety
Apr 8, 2008
The movie seems perfunctory, as if Brooks did not really direct it, but only organized it. Full Review
The New York Review of Books
Mar 13, 2018
In Cold Blood is a somber, slablike, all-of-a-piece inclemency that bears little resemblance to the open, cheap-knit style of Capote's writing. Full Review
Artforum
Jun 19, 2019

Product Description:

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.

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  • UPC: 715515160711
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