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In Cold Blood Director: Richard Brooks Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart

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  • DVD Release Date: 09/23/2003
  • Original Release: 1967
  • Rating: Rated R
  • Sales Rank: 2,597
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Side #1 --
1. Start [:11]
2. A Decent, Ordinary Family [6:04]
3. Vegas Fantasy [3:35]
4. Tools of the Trade [5:15]
5. Treasure of Sierra Madre [3:59]
6. A Natural Born Killer [1:53]
7. In Cold Blood [8:42]
8. Agent Alvin Dewey [3:43]
9. Press Conference [2:27]
10. $43 & a Radio [3:05]
11. Wedding Trousseau [2:43]
12. Floyd Wells' Tip [1:51]
13. Tex Smith [8:35]
14. Great News [1:35]
15. Murder Without Motive [4:03]
16. Memories of Mother [2:16]
17. "You Only Live Once" [2:49]
18. Mr. Hickock [5:51]
19. Gifts in a Manger [1:42]
20. Needles Bound [1:58]
21. Interrogation [3:45]
22. The Third Mistake [6:21]
23. "He Said You Did It" [:22]
24. The Way it Was [6:51]
25. The State Rests [2:13]
26. The S&I Building [1:44]
27. Killing Time on Death Row [18:44]
28. Two Dates at the Corner [3:38]

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Richard Brooks wrote and directed this stark black-and-white (with brilliantly evocative cinematography by Conrad Hall) study of two drifters who murder a family, based on Truman Capote's non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. The film takes place in Holcomb, Kansas, where four members of the Herbert Clutter family are roused from their sleep and brutally murdered. The killers, Perry Smith (Robert Blake) and Dick Hickock (Scott Wilson), are two ex-cons who plan to rob the Clutters of $10,000 kept in a safe in their home. But Dick and Perry find no safe and no $10,000 and end up leaving the murder scene with only $43. The police, led by Alvin Dewey (John Forsythe) of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, try to track down the killers. Meanwhile, Dick and Perry take off to Mexico, where Perry has fantasies of prospecting for gold. But when his dreams of prospecting come to naught, Dick insists that they return to the United States. Confident that they have left no clues, they cash bad checks, and the police track them down in Las Vegas. During questioning, their alibis are broken when they are separated and tell conflicting stories. Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

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In Cold Bloodby Anonymous

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March 15, 2007: Well, this movie IS NOT an illustrated case for the death penalty. Capote never takes that stand in the book, nor do the filmmaker's here, thank goodness. Bennett Miller's film, Capote, actually inspired me to seek this one out. I was truly impressed. The screenplay and cinematography are both compelling - a singular vision that works beautifully. The photography has a realism and grittiness without the distraction of the more contemoprary "handheld" camera effects. Yet it also displays tenderness and poignancy in the close up shots without becoming maudlin or sentimental. The acting is superb and Quincy Jones' soundtrack gives the film a period authenticity. In all, a compelling classic.

In Cold Bloodby Anonymous

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August 27, 2005: Writer-director Richard Brooks' masterful film takes the same stance as author Truman Capote's original "non-fiction" novel from which the film is drawn, except that Brooks is an engaged observer. He has an apparent admiration for police efficiency, a demonstration for capital punishment equal to his distaste for laws which alternatively save the murderer from execution and offers parole after but a few years. He has sympathy for the victims and for the perpetrators of the crime. By using mostly unknown players who include some of the real-life neighbors of the victims, Brooks enables us to accept his filmic reality without being hampered by familiar faces. On one hand, the audience is spared from viewing the murders in action, as in "Bonnie and Clyde" (also 1967). On the other, the audience is privy to the reaction of the Clutter family when it dawns on each member of the family that none of them will escape. This is all more wrenching because the family obviously is close and the pleas of each to "do what you will with me only spare. . ." is pretty hard to take. Why should such a film be made and a book written? Perhaps because we all find ourselves faced more and more by such senseless slaughter. We need to understand, if we can, some of the causes and to try, if we can, to find a just and equitable solution both for the criminals and for the society on whom they prey. [filmfactsman]


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