Review of The Thin Blue Line (1988) by Nicholas D — 29 Mar 2009
Mesmerizing documentary by the great Errol Morris, who makes docs like no one else I've ever seen. This one originally started out as a doc about a guy nicknamed "Doctor Death" because he always testified in capital cases and claimed that the defendants would kill again if released.
While interviewing one of the men he testified against, he became convinced that the man in question, Randall Adams, was innocent. He interviewed everyone concerned with the case and made this doc out of the footage.
Incredibly, he gets the true killer to do everything but come right out and confess to the murder, yet when the film was released, Adams was still on Death Row in Texas. The film eventually got Adams a retrial and he was released.
An amazing documentary.
This review of The Thin Blue Line (1988) was written by Nicholas D on 29 Mar 2009.
The Thin Blue Line has generally received very positive reviews.
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