In Cold Blood [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Richard Brooks

Overview

This bleak drama, based on Truman Capote's bestseller, focuses on ex-cons Perry and Dick. The men are making their way across the heartland and believe that a local family, the Clutters, is stashing $10,000 in their home. After brutally killing the family, the two men flee -- without the $10,000.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/17/2015
UPC:	0715515160612
Original Release:	1967
Rating:	R
Source:	THE CRITERION COLLECTION, INC
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	2:14:00
Sales rank:	9,399

Special Features

New interview with cinematographer John Bailey about director of photography Conrad Hall's work in the film; New interview with film historian Bobbie O'Steen on the film's editing; New interview with film critic and jazz historian Gary Giddins about Quincy Jones's music for the film; New interview with writer Douglass K. Daniel on director Richard Brooks; Interview with Brooks from a 1988 episode of the French television series Cin?ma cin?mas; With Love from Truman, a short 1966 documentary featuring novelist Truman Capote, directed by Albert and David Maysles; Two archival NBC interviews with Capote: ; one following the author on a 1966 visit to Holcomb, Kansas, and the other conducted by Barbara Walters in 1967; Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Robert Blake	Perry Smith,Perry Smith
Scott Wilson	Dick Hickock
John Forsythe	Alvin Dewey
Paul Stewart	Periodista
Gerald S. O'Loughlin	Harold Nye
Jeff Corey	Mr. Hickock
John Gallaudet	Roy Church
James Flavin	Clarence Duntz
Charles McGraw	Smith's Father
Jim Lantz	Officer Rohleder,Officer Rohleder
Will Geer	Prosecuting Attorney,Actor
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. Post
Sammy Thurman	Mr. Smith
Sadie Truitt	Herself
Myrtle Clare	Herself
Teddy Eccles	Young Hitchhiker,Young Hitchhiker
Raymond Hatton	Elderly Hitchhiker
Mary-Linda Rapelye	Susan Kidwell
Ronda Fultz	Nancy's Friend
Al Christy	Sheriff
Don Sollars	Store Salesman
Harriet Levitt	Mrs. Hartman,Insurance Man
Quincy Jones	Composer

Technical Credits

Richard Brooks

Truman Capote

Richard Brooks	Screenwriter,Producer
Geza Gaspar	Special Effects
Truman Capote	Screenwriter
Arthur Piantadosi	Sound Effects
William Randall	Sound Effects

Scene Index

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction Barbara Brookes Wendy Mitchinson Tracy Penny Light 3

Section 1 Embodied Citizenship 23

1 The "Bone and Sinew of the Nation": Antebellum Workingmen on Health and Sovereignty Patricia A. Reeve 25

2 Gendered Roles, Gendered Welfare: Health and the English Poor Law, 1871-1911 Marjorie Levine-Clark 53

3 Constructing Hygienic Subjects: The Regulation and Reformation of Aboriginal Bodies Meg Parsons 74

4 Shaping Student Bodies and Minds: The Redefinition of Self at English-Canadian Universities, 1900-60 Catherine Gidney 100

Section 2 Defining and Contesting Illness 121

5 Osteomalacia: Femininity and the "Softening of Bones" in Central European Medicine (1830-1920) Brigitte Fuchs 123

6 Disciplining Male Bodies: Infertility and Medicine in Germany in the Decades after the Second World War Antje Kampf 152

7 "Cherishing Hopes of the Impossible": Mothers, Fathers, and Disability at Birth in Mid-Twentieth-Century New Zealand Barbara Brookes 178

8 Breaking Down Barriers: Women in the Ontario HIV/AIDS Movement before the Advent of Antiretroviral Therapy Natalie L. Gravelle 200

Section 3 Authority and Ideals 225

9 Referred for Special Services: Children, Youth, and the Production of Heterononnativity at Alexandra Neighbourhood House in Post-war Vancouver Anika Stafford Mona Gleason 227

10 The Heterosexual Nature of Health and Hygiene Advertisements in the Cold War Era Thomas Wendelboe 245

11 Educating Doctors about Obesity: The Gendered Use of Pharmaceutical Advertisements Wendy Mitchinson 268

12 Motherhood Gone Mad? The Rise of Postpartum Depression in the United States during the 1980s Rebecca Godderis 303

13 From Fixing to Enhancing Bodies: Shifting Ideals of Health and Gender in the Medical Discourse on Cosmetic Surgery in Twentieth-Century Canada Tracy Penny Light 319

Bibliography 347

Contributors 381

Index 385

Editorial Reviews

Director Richard Brooks stripped away the outer layers of literary artifice for his screen adaptation of Truman Capote's "non-fiction novel" about a multiple murder in Kansas and instead captured the book's core: a painstakingly researched and breathtakingly detailed account of a crime that had terrible consequences and no real point. Aiming for as realistic and "non-Hollywood" an approach as possible, Brooks shot In Cold Blood in stark but richly detailed black-and-white (Conrad Hall earned an Oscar nomination for his camera work) and filmed much of the action in locations where the events occurred in real life; the result is a film with the narrative strength of a well-structured drama and the unflinchingly honest look of a documentary. Brooks also wisely cast two relative unknowns in the leads; Robert Blake, who made his screen debut in 1938 at the age of 5, gave a striking breakthrough performance as the brutal but weak-willed Perry Smith, and Scott Wilson, in his second screen appearance, was just as convincing as the sly, manipulative Dick Hickock. Both actors practically disappear into their roles, delivering the finest work of their respective careers. The film also shrewdly follows the book's structure in not showing the actual murders until relatively late in the game. Brooks allows us to get to know Smith and Hickock quite well before we see their most brutal and mercenary sides, and we're also given a chance to become acquainted with the doomed members of the Clutter Family; it's ultimately the story of the killers, but the presence of the victims gives the film a greater, more tragic weight. And while Brooks avoids hitting the audience over the head with an anti-capital punishment message, the film's conclusion makes clear that the execution of Perry and Dick serves no more point than the murder of Herbert Clutter and his family: both are mistakes, with no one better off as a result.

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