MOVIE · 1967

In Cold Blood

CrimeDocumentaryDramaThriller134 min

After a botched robbery leaves a Kansas family of four dead in 1959, two drifters stay on the run while the murder case tightens around them. Robert Blake is Perry Smith, the quieter, more inward half of the pair, while Scott Wilson's Dick Hickock pushes forward with nervous bravado and mounting desperation. Drawn from the Clutter family killings in Holcomb, Kansas, the film tracks the crime, the search, and the aftermath with a blunt, reportorial eye. Its black-and-white images and pared-down dialogue keep the focus on the killers, the investigators, and the damage left behind.