Word: hickock
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrong prescription usually results in a headache. Likewise, the near-sighted squint with which In Cold Blood inspects its subject matter only strains the viewer. With meticulous regard for detail the film attempts to relate the facts surrounding the murder of the Clutter family by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock. Drawing from Truman Capote's research, the film version of his book reproduces the chilling aspects of this so-called "senseless" crime--the paradoxical motives of the killers, the inability of social conventions to adequately explain the atrocity, and the irony by which the state executes the killers for reasons...
...NEITHER Hickock nor Smith have any interest in the world beyond their illusory glories. The film manages to keep the killers apart from the guilt of the crime. The guilty party is a third person, created by the challenges Hickock and Smith defy the polarities of sanity and insanity. It is said that neither of them would have committed the act alone. Against their insensitivity, the mechanistic judicial system, with its $300-a-head hangman, bears a brutality...
...COLD BLOOD. In black-and-white photography that evokes the grimness of the real event, Director Richard Brooks records the murder of a Kansas family with remarkable fidelity and probes the characters of the two killers, expertly played by Robert Blake (as Perry Smith) and Scott Wilson (as Dick Hickock...
...COLD BLOOD. In black-and-white photography that evokes the grimness of the real event, Director Richard Brooks records the murder of a Kansas family with remarkable fidelity and probes the characters of the two killers, expertly played by Robert Blake (as Perry Smith) and Scott Wilson (as Dick Hickock...
...COLD BLOOD. Richard Brooks has followed Truman Capote's harrowing anatomization of a multiple murder in Kansas with remarkable fidelity, and the performances of the unknown actors who portray the killers (Scott Wilson as Dick Hickock, Robert Blake as Perry Smith) lift the film to near brilliance...