In the photo below, (from left) camera assistant Bobby Thomas (seated on apple box), operator (and later ASC great) Jordan Cronenweth, Brooks and Hall line up a shot while on location in Kansas, where the actual murders took place:
https://www.inman.com/2019/10/24/in-cold-blood-home-site-of-clutter-murders-hits-the-market/
Brooks’s insistence on filming in black-and-white, often on location in Kansas, and Quincy Jones’s original music stand out as In Cold Blood’s most striking and enduring esthetic attributes. The film—which used the Clutter home, the actual courtroom, seven of the twelve original jurors, the same hangman, and Nancy Clutter’s horse—seems infused with a blending of fact and fiction, just as did Capote’s “nonfiction novel.”
To read the full article, by Philip Heldrich, Emporia State University, (used with permission from the Kansas Historical Society) click HERE.
...And to the degree that "In Cold Blood" is an accurate, sensitive record of actual events, it succeeds overpoweringly. The actors, Robert Blake (Smith) and Scott Wilson (Hickock), are so good they pass beyond performances and almost into life. Many other performances also have the flat, every day, absolutely genuine ring of truth to them. At times one feels this is not a movie but a documentary that the events are taking place now.
