Fresh
A probing, sensitive, tasteful, balanced and suspenseful documentary-drama.
Variety Staff, Variety
In Cold Blood
The crime that shocked a nation.
1967 · 2h 14m · R
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Richard Brooks
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In Cold Blood
Overview
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
Director and cast
- Richard Brooks Director
- Robert Blake as Perry Smith
- Scott Wilson as Richard 'Dick' Hickcock
- John Forsythe as Alvin Dewey
- Paul Stewart as Jensen
- Gerald S. O'Loughlin as Harold Nye
- Jeff Corey as Mr. Hickock
- John Gallaudet as Roy Church
- James Flavin as Clarence Duntz
- Charles McGraw as Tex Smith
- Will Geer as Prosecutor
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Hall's bleak vision, his gift for working with darkness and rain, rivals classic film noir of the 1940s and '50s in its visual mastery.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
Excellent quasidocumentary, which sends shivers down the spine while moving the viewer to ponder.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Fresh
Brooks' great achievement in the film is to portray Smith and Hickock as the unexceptional, dim-witted, morally adrift losers they were.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
An uneasy mixture of facile Freudianism and 40s expressionism.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
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