in cold blood be one of several 60 film that create a new vision of violence in the hollywood film industry . capote coin the phrase nonfiction novel to describe the book on which this film be base and and the spirit of that form be carry over into the film script and which he co write . despite the fact that we be well into the era of color film and richard brook elect to present this film in black and white to underscore both the starkness of the landscape and the bleakness of the story . this be the first problem with the tv remake color change the tone of the story . in addition and the confinement of shoot a film for tv make reduce the option of how the shot be frame and focus . a a result and we lose the dramatic clash which make the second part of the original film ( police interview and trial and imprisonment and and execution ) so claustrophobic . on the small screen and it just another version of law and order spin offs . hollywood search for script continuously take it back to movie that be successful in another age . usually and that a mistake and and this be no exception . all of the actor be competent . the script be ok. the direct doesn not get in the way . it just that the movie doesn not work as well a the original precision instrument . it doesn not hook the viewer into the ambivalence toward smith and hickock that the original film provokes . at the end of the tv version and we be leave with the feeling represent ho hum and who care . see the original first and on a large a screen a you can and then watch the tv version simply to understand why the first one be such an important film in 1967. wouldn not hurt to also go on line and read a bit about capote and the original book . it will help you to understand the extraordinary effort he put into the material and and also some of the controversy surround both the book and the movie . i actually only give this a 4 because i save the bottom 3 ranking for true bomb the kind that enrage you about have be suck into spend an .