Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" came back to people's attention with the release of Bennett Miller's "Capote", depicting the author's research into the Clutter murders and subsequent infatuation with Perry Smith (widely considered the first time that a book about a heinous crime essentially made a celebrity out of the perpetrator). Nonetheless, Richard Brooks's 1967 adaptation of the original novel still bears watching. Robert Blake and the recently deceased Scott Wilson - nowadays recognizable from "The Walking Dead" - depict Perry Smith and Dick Hickock as a pair of men who feel like they have no other hope in the world, so they pull off their infamous crime.
The characters say and do things that must've been shocking for viewers at the time. Without a doubt, this was one of the movies that helped bring down the Hays Code. And that's just one of the reasons why it remains a classic. Anyone curious about classic cinema has to see it.
Also starring John Forsythe, Jeff Corey, Will Geer and Vaughn Taylor (Marion's boss in "Psycho").
The characters say and do things that must've been shocking for viewers at the time. Without a doubt, this was one of the movies that helped bring down the Hays Code. And that's just one of the reasons why it remains a classic. Anyone curious about classic cinema has to see it.
Also starring John Forsythe, Jeff Corey, Will Geer and Vaughn Taylor (Marion's boss in "Psycho").