The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 441

Abed Carres' Gtnasov fofamanwho I was damned vifhewouU and damned vBhewouldnu house, then cuts to the discovery (an off-camera scream) of the slaughter. Much later in the film, we are given the ransacking and the murders in flashback. The murders are handled with restraint, not in Grand Guignol style, but are not less horrifying for it. To spare us early on comes as a relief; we aren't, that soon in the film, quite ready. The effect, later on, is perhaps to cushion the emotional shock slightly (it is still tough going); but also, I think, to preserve our balance of thought and feeling and to avoid the too-easy 'IN COLD BLOOD' Produced directed and written for the screen by Richard Brooks.

From the book by Truman Capote. Photographed by Conrad Hall. Edited by Peter Zin-ner. Art direction by Robert Boyle. Sound by WiHiam Randall Jack Haynes, A.

Plantadosl, Richard Tyler. Music by Quincy Jones. Featuring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart, i Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Jeff Corey, John Gallaudet, James Flavin, Charles McGraw, James Lantz, Will Geer, John McLlam, Ruth Storey, Brenda C. Currin, Paul Hough, Vaughn Taylor, Duke.

Hobble, Sheldon Allman, Sammy Thurman. plunge into emotionalism. Brooks has been at pains to keep us pensive. As the killers, Robert Blake as Perry Smith and Scott Wilson as Richard Hickock are indelible, credible, the more frightening for being the more human and recognizable. The physical resemblance is outstanding (if less so in the case of Wilson as the accident-marred Hickock), but so are the boys' acting The film's authenticity is enhanced', by Brooks' use of able but not overfamiliar actors.

Indeed, the one or two exceptions are unfortunate. John Forsythe delivers a good and understated performance (and looks not unlike Alvin Dewey, who handled the' case) but you wish it had been someone who had smiled less often from the TV screen. Again, the invention 6f a kind of one-man Greek chorus (comparable to Capote himself) to comment on the action and make the philosophic points about capital punishment was an awkward theatrical measure at best (though perhaps unavoidable). The veteran actor Paul Stewart, who plays this newsman-chorus, does it quite well but the memory of him in earlier such spectating roles wrenches the film from Garden City to Gower St. But there are outstanding performances from Jeff Corey as Hickock's father, Charles McGraw as Smith's father, Gerald O'Loughlin as one of the investigating detectives, John Gallaudet and James Flavin as others.

Will Geer is the dramatic prosecuting attorney, Sheldon Allman the prison chaplain. Some ruthless time-economies have obviously had to be employed (the film runs a taut 134 minutes). The Clutters (played by John McLiam, Ruth Storey, Brenda C. Currin and Paul Hough) are seen so briefly as to become poster representations of the agrarian branch of the American Dream come true. At that, it was their unsuspecting, Godfearing normality which made their ghastly deaths so particularly horrifying.

The music, the excellent music, is by Quincy Jones. The pace and unobtrusive skill of Peter Zinner's editing rates particular mention, as does the work of the sound recorders William Randall Jack Haynes and A. Piahtadosi. It is all actuality sound, enhancing the verisimilitude of the picture. The traps into which the film could have fallen were many: Dragnet Revisited, horror tale, courtroom battle.

Not least of Brooks' achievements in "In Cold Bipod" are what he has not done, the traps avoided. What he has achieved is an earnest, honest, riveting, sobering look at the roots and flowering of a crime of our times. Robert Blake, above, and Scoff Wilson as they appear in roles for "In Cold Blood." ft: 4 i EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT STARTS FRIDAY! SCATS-CMKTi HOT ROOMS COHDmomiQ couMFutoeeort I'm 5879 Pico LAST 5 DATS! ficraiAiOREai0 SHARIF ore tnan a All the glamour and greatness of the worlds fn KETROCOiOR and FRANSCOPE CONTHHIMIS rtnOHiANCu MOM. thru FRI.il 6:30 S. 30 10:30 PM MT.it 10:30 PM 404 WffthNa Mm.

at CaftM DilW CR. 1-1121 VJWOAY at 1000 PM HI PARAMOUNT Ctcil D. DeMille', THE TEN. COMMANDMENTS cop's lime ACRE MOIL FLANDERS C0VINAIn Arrew EO I-S233 Paramount-Corn. ME I-4MK ROADIUM Deaa Mxrtia.

Rank MfM I Jerkk ftrllt 01 Pauline ncH REO HOUR OF THE SUN R.ilanilo Beh. COVIN II EO 1-9233 Cren. DA 4-2664 BUBID0UX Hv.aaw.RlnrU. HAWAII LAST CHALLENGE HARBOR TE4-S90I THE TEN COMMANDMENTS per car OV 3-4455 SUNDOWN 12322 E.Wuh.BI. most exciting drama ofspeed and spectacle! a cast of ra inteniat 'pf IWMWiW frW r.

i 7TkT METRO rfZlp 0F3 IT A JOHN FRANKENHE1MER FILM AOU)EMy LUV Wfet's MiMHai Mint COD'S LITRE ACRE MOLL FLANDERS HASTINGS Rm. at F'rtill 8V S-SM WllittkrOV 3-3242 DEACH RED WHO'S MINDINC THE MINT SUNLAND MltFootkillBlv. 8unlomlFL2-MOI COD'S LITTLE ACRE MOLL FLANDERS LAMiRADA S.A.Fwy.-Ahindrl 92I-28S4 DIRTY DOZEN THE LAST CHALLENGE VALLEY U.S. A Central DIVORCE AMERICAN STTLI THE WAT WEST MAGNOLIA Arlinitea 639-3344 MISSION Mioion-Pomsna MONDORAMA 3 DIG FEATURES VAN BUREN Van Bwen Ave. Arlinft.n OV S-23M M0ND0RAMA.

3 DIG FEATURES Pomona, 628.0511 a little something to help you nn SMMIKtt irnrft niirn nit riirtr nii'rr imra Pf niririn MAICO you need little fcefs to besr. Iftde MAICO hearing aid can do wonders foe your self confidence. More than a done fine quality aids mi all stylet, for all types of heariDi lotK. From MAICO, HMott Respected Name la Hearinc" line 1937. Let ns show yon how wellyon can bear again.

Call or write for a free bearing evaluation oblifatioaV cu-WL'iucn i.coi.aU.Ji-..u iUu.i...ji..A,.r. i- md introducing -w A DOUCLKS LEWIS PRODUCIKW serMn ttery and tciMAphylv R0BRT ALAN AWtniUR pVectMl by JOHN FRMiKENtttlMER produced by EDVWUtD LfS hmm by MMJItlCE JMtft mgm A- HI SUPEX WMVBKHTArtD METROCOLOK HEARING AID SERVICE 811 SCUTH KU Pboae 827-C157 NINETEEN.