St. Helena Public Library
celebrates the works of Truman Capote and
Nelle Harper Lee, along with a special film for Thanksgiving.

Truman Capote's extraordinary nonfiction book about the course of
two killers in this world — their lives, their senseless slaughter of an entire
family, their executions — was faithfully adapted for the screen in this 1967
film by Richard Brooks. Robert Blake and Scott Wilson are remarkable as the
murderers, but what has kept this film special over the decades is Brooks'
blunt, clear-headed and non-sensational approach to the story. The term 'semidocumentary' has been applied to Brooks' style on this film, and
it's an entirely fair description. The experience of watching this film
is naturally unsettling, but the director, as with Capote, leaves final
judgments about justice to the beholder.

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