Poster from TMDB
In Cold Blood
Sign in to save1967 film by Richard Brooks
OverviewAI-generated
In Cold Blood is a 1967 American docudrama film directed, produced, and written by Richard Brooks. Based on the work of Truman Capote, the movie features a cast including Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, and Paul Stewart. The narrative is set in Kansas and explores themes of murder and psychological drama. The production was handled by Columbia Pictures and Pax Enterprises, with Conrad Hall serving as director of photography and Peter Zinner as film editor. Quincy Jones composed the score for the black-and-white feature.
The film was released in the United States on December 15, 1967, with a runtime of 134 minutes. It has a budget of 3,500,000 and generated revenue of 13,007,551. In Cold Blood is associated with the New Hollywood movement and is distributed by Columbia Pictures and Netflix. It received the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films award and was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score.
Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, TMDb, IMDb. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Film · TMDB
7.5After 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.
Cast
- 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
Themes
- murder
- true crime
- farmer
- gay theme
- psychological drama
- tragic
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Key facts
- Directed by
- Richard Brooks
- Screenplay by
- Richard Brooks
- Based on
- In Cold Blood , (1966 novel), by Truman Capote
- Produced by
- Richard Brooks
- Starring
- Robert Blake Scott Wilson John Forsythe Jeff Corey
- Cinematography
- Conrad Hall
- Edited by
- Peter Zinner
- Music by
- Quincy Jones
- Production company
- Pax Enterprises
- Distributed by
- Columbia Pictures
- Release date
- December 15, 1967 ( 1967-12-15 )
- Running time
- 135 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $3.5 million
- Box office
- $13 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Part of
- National Film Registry
- Genre
- crime film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- In Cold Blood
- Movement
- New Hollywood
- Director
- Richard Brooks
- Screenwriter
- Richard Brooks
- Cast member
- Vaughn Taylor
- Composer
- Quincy Jones
- Producer
- Richard Brooks
- Production company
- Columbia Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Conrad Hall
- Narrative location
- Kansas
- Duration
- 134
- FilmAffinity ID
- 637976
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Image
- In cold blood trailer.jpg
Show 10 more facts
- Commons category
- In Cold Blood (film)
- publication date
- 1967-01-01
- film editor
- Peter Zinner
- title
- In Cold Blood
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Score
- color
- black-and-white
- after a work by
- Truman Capote
- distributed by
- Netflix
- different from
- In Cold Blood
- review score
- 89/100
Sources (12)
via Wikidata · CC0
~17 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Truman Capote's In Cold Blood (usually just referred to as In Cold Blood) is a 1967 American neo-noir biographical crime film written, produced and directed by Richard Brooks, based on Truman Capote's 1966 nonfiction novel. It stars Robert Blake as Perry Smith and Scott Wilson as Richard "Dick" Hickock, two men who murder a family of four in Holcomb, Kansas.
Although the film is largely faithful to the book, Brooks made some slight alterations, including the inclusion of a fictional character, Jensen, a reporter (played by Paul Stewart). The film was shot on location at sites where Smith and Hickock's crimes occurred, including the real Clutter home where they robbed and murdered four members of the family.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “In Cold Blood” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.