The first movie version of IN COLD BLOOD was filmed with actors who resembled their real life counterparts. Real life people and locations were used whenever possible. The film was shot in black and white and released Dec 14, 1967. The reverie that can occur when travelling comes to life in a scene where Robert Blake as one of the killers rides in on a Greyhound bus. Blake lugs all of his stuff with him and goes off into a dream world in the mirror of a bus station bathroom mirror. The trip taken by the killers to get to the murder site and the subsequent flight in various cars as far south as Mexico spans a large part of the film. Details of the confession are revealed on a ride to trial in a police motorcade.