In Cold Blood
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.
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- 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 Cinéma cinemas
- 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
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara
New cover by Eric Skillman
Special Features
- New 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- 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 Cinéma cinemas
- 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
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Chris Fujiwara
New cover by Eric Skillman
Cast
- Robert Blake
- Perry Smith
- Scott Wilson
- Dick Hickock
- John Forsythe
- Alvin Dewey
- Paul Stewart
- Bill 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 C. Currin
- Nancy Clutter
- Paul Hough
- Kenyon Clutter
Credits
- Director
- Richard Brooks
- Written for the screen by
- Richard Brooks
- Producer
- Richard Brooks
- Based on the book by
- Truman Capote
- Director of photography
- Conrad Hall
- Music
- Quincy Jones
- Assistant director
- Tom Shaw
- Art director
- Robert Boyle
- Editor
- Peter Zinner
- Script supervisor
- John Franco
- Public relations
- Al Horwits
- Chief electrician
- Harry Sundby
- Property masters
- Joe LaBella
- Property masters
- Bob Eaton
- Sound
- William Randall Jr.
- Sound
- Dick Tyler
- Sound
- Arthur Piantadosi
- Sound effects
- John H. Newman
- Set decorator
- Jack Ahern
- Special effects
- Chuck Gaspar
- Wardrobe
- Jack Martell
- Makeup
- Gary Morris
- Assistant editor
- Earl Herdan
- Orchestrations
- Leo Shuken
- Orchestrations
- Jack Hayes
