From Page To Screen: In Cold Blood (1967)

Screening as part of the 2025 From Page To Screen film festival

Introduced by novelist and journalist Xan Brooks

Arkansas 1959. Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, two ex-convicts, hatch a plan to rob a wealthy farmer’s family – the Cutters. The robbery goes horribly wrong, resulting in the deaths of the entire family. Truman Capote wrote his celebrated non-fiction novel based on the Cutters’ fate and created a whole new literary genre.

Director Richard Brooks adapted the book, retaining some of Capote’s gay subtext, and, aspiring to a documentary aesthetic, cast two unknown actors, Robert Blake and Scott Wilson, in the lead roles. Filmed in black and white widescreen on location in Arkansas and partly in the Cutters’ actual house, the film’s dark, menacing and gripping narrative is enhanced by the remarkable performances of Blake and Wilson.

Dir. Richard Brooks, USA 1967, 135 mins. With Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart.

Certificate 15

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Bridport Arts Centre

Friday 25 April at 11am

Tickets: £6.50 (Under 25’s £6.00)

Festival Offer

All 11am and 2pm films for £34.50 (50% Discount)

Tickets available from Bridport Tourist Information Centre, Bridport Town Hall, South Street DT6 3LF. Tel: 01308 424901 or online HERE