(Kaltblütig [de])
USA 1967
d: Richard Brooks
Columbia Tristar Home Video (Region 2 uk)
sc: Richard Brooks (based on the book "In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences" by Truman Capote)
c: Conrad Hall (b/w, Panavision)
e: Peter Zinner
pd: Robert F. Boyle
m: Quincy Jones
p: Richard Brooks (Columbia Pictures Corporation / Pax Enterprises)
w: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Jeff Corey, John Gallaudet, James Flavin, John Collins, Charles McGraw, Will Geer, James Lantz, John McLiam, Brenda Currin, Ruth Storey
pr: 14 Dez 1967
rt: 128:59 (+4%PAL= 134) min
dvd-rl: 15 Sep 2003
ar: 2.35:1 (16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen)
sd: English Dolby Surround 3.0 • French Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono • German Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono • Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono • Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
st: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Arabic, Hindi, Portuguese, Turkish
supp: • Theatrical Trailer (16:9, 2:46 min)
• Bonus Trailers for "Devil in a Blue Dress" (2:26 min), "The Devil’s Own" (2:20 min), "In a Lonely Place" (2:18 min), "Mortal Thoughts" (1:48 min)
A low-key adaptation of Truman Capote's 'novel of fact' about the murder of a whole family by two disturbed petty criminals, "In Cold Blood" forever shies away from trying to understand the killers (played by Blake and Wilson). Accordingly, in contrast to Capote, whose obsessive documentation of the pair's every act betrays his fear than he (and his readers) could well do something similar, Brooks explains and sympathises away their act as being unique to them.
— PH, Time Out Film Guide
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Truman Capote's book reconstructed the murder of the Clutter family (father, mother and two children) by Perry Smith and Dick Hickock. They stole 43 dollars and five years later were hanged.... [Director Richard] Brooks has used actual locations and sometimes the people involved in the original story. It is one of the most unusual works of postwar cinema.... Brooks has been relentlessly authentic and disheartening in his concern for the young murderers and the 'justice' they received. It is a brutally worrying film.
— Brian Baxter, National Film Theatre, London
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All [Brooks'] films suggest an unextinguished social conscience, a moral rigor struggling for expression, but it is "In Cold Blood" alone, with its documentary harshness, crisp winter photography (... by the remarkable Conrad Hall) and tight performances from Robert Blake and Scott Wilson as the mass-murderers ... that shows a Brooks one remembers from "The Blackboard Jungle".
— John Baxter, Hollywood in the Sixties
