Comments on: Review: The Thin Blue Line (1988) http://www.titicut.com/documentary-reviews/the-thin-blue-line/ Sifting through the detritus of documentaries. Documentary film reviews & filmmaking with a heavy dose of opinion. Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:41:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: MarkD http://www.titicut.com/documentary-reviews/the-thin-blue-line/comment-page-1/#comment-136 MarkD Sun, 01 May 2011 05:48:59 +0000 http://www.titicut.com/?p=508#comment-136 I would re-write the following: "Having met earlier in the day, Randall Adams and David Harris were pulled over by patrol officers for an inconsequential vehicle defect. Adams’ version of what happened next, the predominant truth portrayed in the film, is that Harris reached over and shot the approaching officer dead. After retiring to a motel Adams was charged with the murder..." Not true. Adams's version of it, the truth, is that Harris dropped him off at the motel, then left and shot Officer Wood a bit later in the night, while Adams was asleep at the motel. Adams wasn't in the vehicle at the time, and didn't know about the incident until he was picked up for questioning several days later. It's Harris's story that BOTH he and Adams were in the car, with Adams driving, when Wood pulled them over. Therefore, to have Harris tell it, Adams was the driver who shot Wood. But the truth is Adams was already asleep at his hotel, and not in the car at all. I would re-write the following: “Having met earlier in the day, Randall Adams and David Harris were pulled over by patrol officers for an inconsequential vehicle defect. Adams’ version of what happened next, the predominant truth portrayed in the film, is that Harris reached over and shot the approaching officer dead. After retiring to a motel Adams was charged with the murder…”

Not true. Adams’s version of it, the truth, is that Harris dropped him off at the motel, then left and shot Officer Wood a bit later in the night, while Adams was asleep at the motel. Adams wasn’t in the vehicle at the time, and didn’t know about the incident until he was picked up for questioning several days later.

It’s Harris’s story that BOTH he and Adams were in the car, with Adams driving, when Wood pulled them over. Therefore, to have Harris tell it, Adams was the driver who shot Wood. But the truth is Adams was already asleep at his hotel, and not in the car at all.

]]> By: brettbridgeman http://www.titicut.com/documentary-reviews/the-thin-blue-line/comment-page-1/#comment-46 brettbridgeman Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:09:40 +0000 http://www.titicut.com/?p=508#comment-46 It is a fact that Morris shot more that 7 hours of conversation with Judge Metcalf and used only a small snippett about dillenger's wife wearing an orange rather than a red dress..........nice technique that would never pass today as any interviewee could record any session and post to YouTube. It is a fact that Morris shot more that 7 hours of conversation with Judge Metcalf and used only a small snippett about dillenger’s wife wearing an orange rather than a red dress……….nice technique that would never pass today as any interviewee could record any session and post to YouTube.

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