I have the p'back ed. of the book (Capote's famous invention, the "nonfiction" novel, which basically meant it wasn't chronological), & those movie ad eyes can spook you: this was the orig. movie ad.
That score! Those characters: Bobby Blake limping & drinking down aspirin tablets with root beer; the chilling, skin-curling, totally asexual way in which Scott Wilson's Hickock calls Blake's Smith "honey." Blake's flashbacks watching his whore mother are genuinely erotic: has there been anything comparable since?
Then, panic in the Clutter house, while Smith, so outraged @crawling around under a bed for a silver dollar, takes it out on the family. & The "living witness."
Director Richard Brooks was supposedly the original choice to direct The Godfather. He turned it down: he wouldn't make heroes of gangsters.
But he made this, & later he made Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which had alot of the Cold Blood people-in-panic mode to it. (Although there's violence in The Godfather, is there any real suspense?)
This is great acting, folks. & Great dialog: name of the executioner? We the people!
That score! Those characters: Bobby Blake limping & drinking down aspirin tablets with root beer; the chilling, skin-curling, totally asexual way in which Scott Wilson's Hickock calls Blake's Smith "honey." Blake's flashbacks watching his whore mother are genuinely erotic: has there been anything comparable since?
Then, panic in the Clutter house, while Smith, so outraged @crawling around under a bed for a silver dollar, takes it out on the family. & The "living witness."
Director Richard Brooks was supposedly the original choice to direct The Godfather. He turned it down: he wouldn't make heroes of gangsters.
But he made this, & later he made Looking for Mr. Goodbar, which had alot of the Cold Blood people-in-panic mode to it. (Although there's violence in The Godfather, is there any real suspense?)
This is great acting, folks. & Great dialog: name of the executioner? We the people!