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The Thin Blue Line is a 1988 American documentary film by Errol Morris, about the trial and conviction of Randall Dale Adams for the 1976 shooting of Dallas police officer Robert W. Wood. Morris became interested in the case while doing research for a film about Dr. James Grigson, a psychiatrist known in Texas as "Dr. Death" for testifying with "100 percent certainty" of a defendant's ...
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- 1995-11-13
- Comedy, Crime
- 30
Aug 25, 1988 · The Thin Blue Line: Directed by Errol Morris. With Randall Adams, David Harris, Gus Rose, Jackie Johnson. A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.
- (26K)
- Documentary, Crime
- Errol Morris
- 1988-08-25
Apr 30, 1988 · The Thin Blue Line. A Texas man named Randall Dale Adams was traveling down a road near the city of Dallas one night in 1976 when his car broke down. Stranded, he accepted a ride from a teenager named David Harris, who, unbeknownst to him, was driving a stolen vehicle. The two of them were pulled over later that night by police officer Robert ...
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- 102 min
Dec 8, 2023 · A documentary film by Errol Morris that exposes the wrongful conviction of Randall Adams for murdering a police officer in 1976. The film uses interviews, reenactments, and archival footage to challenge the justice system and the "thin blue line" between guilt and innocence.
The " thin blue line " is a term that typically refers to the concept of the police as the line between law-and-order and chaos in society. [1] The "blue" in "thin blue line" refers to the blue color of the uniforms of many police departments. The phrase originated as an allusion to The Thin Red Line incident during the Crimean War in 1854 ...
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Errol Morris' film investigates the case of Randall Adams, who was wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death in Texas. The film uses interviews, reconstructions, and symbolic images to explore the facts, the witnesses, and the human drama of the crime.
