In Cold Blood (1967) vs Capote

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The B&W 1967 film about the horrific Kansas murder based on the Capote book was one of the best. The biography titled Capote 2005 was probably more factual than the 1967 film but it dragged you into an uncomfortable homosexual fantasy. Philip Seymour Hoffman was a better Capote than Capote himself.

 

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Robert Blake played a great part as one of the condemned killers in the '67 film. In a stunning twist of fate he would find himself on trial for murder in '05. He was acquitted but held responsible for the death in a civil case. He died bankrupt at 89 last year. Hoffman died of a drug overdose. Capote would never write another book and died of complications related to alcoholism at 59 in 1984.

 

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Scott Wilson who played one of the killers, Dick Hickock, in Cold Blood" also played a prison priest in "dead man walking". He died at 76 in 2018