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An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town. Director: Norman Jewison Writers: Stirling Silliphant (screenplay), John Ball (based on a...
Bill Gillespie is a police chief in a small town in the American South, and later becomes sheriff of the county. As Bill tries to solve crimes and catch criminals, aided by his capable investigator Virgil Tibbs and police lieutenant Bubba Skinner, he must navigate tricky small-town politics.
Tibbs reveals himself to be a Philadelphia police detective; after he and Gillespie come to a grudging understanding of one another, Tibbs offers to help in Gillespie's investigation. As the case...
In the Heat of the Night. 1967 · 1 hr 51 min. TV-MA. Drama · Crime · Mystery. While traveling in the deep south, a black Philadelphian homicide detective becomes embroiled in a murder investigation. Subtitles: English.
Carroll O'Connor steps into the role of Bill Gillespie, a southern, white sheriff, and Howard Rollins takes on the mantle of Virgil Tibbs, an African American detective, who must put animosity aside to solve crimes in a racially-charged hamlet.
When Virgil Tibbs joins the Sparta, MI, police, resentment festers in Chief of Police Bill Gillespie. But when a local co-ed is brutally murdered, Gillespie and Tibbs join forces only to discover a tangled web of guilt and deception.
In the Heat of the Night is an American police procedural crime drama television series loosely based on the 1967 film and 1965 novel of the same title that starred Carroll O'Connor as police chief Bill Gillespie and Howard Rollins as police detective Virgil Tibbs.
With Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant. A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.
In The Heat Of The Night (1967) This winner of 5 Oscars including Best Picture follows the struggle of an African American police detective from Philadelphia who must overcome racism and prejudice to help the sheriff of a small Mississippi town solve a murder.