Randall Dale Adams
Search results
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 ...
News about Wethersfield, flag policy, town council
News about sexual harassment, lawsuit, male officers
Also in the news
Aug 25, 1988 · Errol Morris's unique documentary dramatically re-enacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas, Texas. Briefly, a drifter (Randall Adams) ran out of gas and was picked up by a 16-year-old runaway (David Harris).
The Thin Blue Line: Created by Ben Elton. With Rowan Atkinson, Mina Anwar, James Dreyfus, Serena Evans. Various mishaps at a police station in an English town. The main character is the anachronistic, yet charming and funny Inspector Fowler.
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, wherein a Scottish regiment —wearing red uniforms —famously held off a Imperial Russian Army cavalry charge.
Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. Those moments are the result of a 30-month investigation by Errol Morris, one of America’s strangest and most brilliant documentary filmmakers, who sometimes jokes that he is not a “producer-director” but a “detective-director.”.
