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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...
...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...
Evil's Banality. The clues they leave behind are minimal: a few footprints and some rope with which they tied their victims. But Hickock and Smith are pathetic examples of the banality of evil. With innumerable chances to es cape capture, they start a spree of flamboyant check bouncing and petty thievery that keep them constantly on the road, from Mexico to Las Vegas to Kansas City, where the police dragnet pulls them in. In their luggage are the two pairs of boots that wallowed through the Clutters' blood...