In Cold Blood

     

In Cold Blood1967

Director: Richard Brooks
Stars: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart, Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Runtime: 134 minutes

Truman Capote's extraordinary nonfiction book about the course of two killers in this world--their lives, their senseless slaughter of an entire family, their executions--was faithfully adapted for the screen in this 1967 film by Richard Brooks (Dea… more »


Alvin Dewey:
Coming?

Reporter:
What for? What does it add up to, anyway?

Alvin Dewey:
Well, four innocent and two guilty people murdered. Three families broken. Newspapers have sold more papers. Politicians will make more speeches. Police and parole boards will get more blame. More laws will be passed. Everybody will pass the buck. And then, next month, next year... the same thing will happen again.

Reporter:
Well, maybe this will help to stop it.

Alvin Dewey:
Never has.

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