Discover
Truman Capote’s best seller, a breakthrough narrative account of real-life crime and punishment, became an equally chilling film in the hands of writer-director Richard Brooks. Cast for their unsettling resemblances to the killers they play, Robert Blake and Scott Wilson give authentic, unshowy performances as Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, who in 1959 murdered a family of four in Kansas during a botched robbery. Brooks brings a detached, documentary-like starkness to this uncompromising view of an American tragedy and its aftermath at the same time, stylistically In Cold Blood is a filmmaking master class, with clinically precise editing, chiaroscuro black-and-white cinematography by the great Conrad Hall, and a menacing jazz score by Quincy Jones.
Original Release
12/15/1967
US Release
12/14/1967
Links
Cast
Name | Character |
---|
Robert Blake | Perry Smith / Perry |
Scott Wilson | Richard 'Dick' Hickcock / Dick |
John Forsythe | Alvin Dewey |
Paul Stewart | Jensen |
Gerald S. O'Loughlin | Harold Nye |
Jeff Corey | Mr. Hickock |
John Gallaudet | Roy Church |
James Flavin | Clarence Duntz |
Charles McGraw | Tex Smith |
Will Geer | Prosecutor |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
---|
Robert Blake | Perry Smith / Perry |
Scott Wilson | Richard 'Dick' Hickcock / Dick |
John Forsythe | Alvin Dewey |
Paul Stewart | Jensen |
Gerald S. O'Loughlin | Harold Nye |
Jeff Corey | Mr. Hickock |
John Gallaudet | Roy Church |
James Flavin | Clarence Duntz |
Charles McGraw | Tex Smith |
Will Geer | Prosecutor |
John McLiam | Herbert Clutter |
Ruth Storey | Bonnie Clutter |
Brenda Currin | Nancy Clutter |
Paul Hough | Kenyon Clutter |
Vaughn Taylor | Good Samaritan |
Duke Hobbie | Young Reporter |
Sheldon Allman | Rev. Jim Post |
Sammy Thurman | Flo Smith |
Raymond Hatton | Elderly Hitchhiker |
Sadie Truitt | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
---|
Richard Brooks | Producer |
Editors
Trailers
Year | Type | Category | Won |
---|
1968 | Oscar | Best Director | Nominated |
1968 | Oscar | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | Nominated |
1968 | Oscar | Best Cinematography | Nominated |
1968 | Oscar | Best Music, Original Music Score | Nominated |
1968 | Golden Globe | Best Motion Picture - Drama | Nominated |