In Cold Blood (Blu-ray) R
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In Cold Blood (2-DVD)
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In Cold Blood (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 14 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 7, 2010
- Originally Released: 1967
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | John Forsythe, Robert Blake & Scott Wilson | |
| Performer: | Jeff Corey, Paul Stewart, John Gallaudet, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, James Flavin & Charles McGraw | |
| Directed by | Richard Brooks | |
| Edited by | Peter Zinner | |
| Screenwriting by | Richard Brooks | |
| Composition by | Quincy Jones | |
| Produced by | Richard Brooks | |
| Director of Photography: | Conrad L. Hall |
Entertainment Reviews:
84%
88%
...Superbly shot in black-and-white...
Total Film
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.
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Artforum
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."
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Times (UK)
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.
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Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
By the end, the film has parted company altogether with Capote's cold detachment, and in doing so underlined the rightness of the book's method. Brooks lingers with rather ghoulish concern.
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The Spectator
Rating: 5/5 --
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.
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Independent (UK)
The movie seems perfunctory, as if Brooks did not really direct it, but only organized it.
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The New York Review of Books
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.
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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