The Thin Blue Line (1988)
A film documentary. November 28, 1976. A Dallas policeman, Robert Wood, flags down a car travelling without lights. When Wood approaches the driver's window he is shot five times and killed. His partner fails to get the licence number. The case seems a dead end until a month later, teenager David Harris is arrested, having bragged about killing a cop. The gun is found in a nearby swamp, but Harris then insists that his boasting was empty and that a hitch-hiker, Randall Adams, had fired the shots. Adams is arrested and, although his part is unblemished, compared with Harris's record of violent crime, is convicted and sentenced to death. This is commuted to life imprisonment on a technicality. Pure chance led filmmaker Errol Morris to investigate the case.
Books with substantial mentioning of The Thin Blue Line
| Frank N. Magill (ed.) Magill's Cinema Annual 1989, A Survey of the Films of 1988 Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988 |
