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The Organization is a 1971 DeLuxe Color American crime thriller film starring Sidney Poitier and directed by Don Medford. It was the last of the trilogy featuring the police detective Virgil Tibbs that had begun with In the Heat of the Night (1967), followed by They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970). In The Organization, Tibbs is called in to hunt ...
Oct 19, 1971 · The Organization: Directed by Don Medford. With Sidney Poitier, Barbara McNair, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Sheree North. In San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen.
- (2.2K)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Don Medford
- 1971-10-19
A.H. Weiler New York Times The Organization can be rough on super-city sleuths as well as movie-goers who've been through much the same melodramatics before. May 9, 2005 Full Review Roger Ebert ...
- (8)
- Don Medford
- PG-13
- Sidney Poitier
The plot is not exactly believable. It's about a strange gang of characters (a storefront preacher, a member of a girl's track team, etc.) who steal an enormous shipment of heroin. But after they make their getaway, someone else kills the guy they left behind, bound and gagged. They let Tibbs in on their secret because they don't want the ...
Sidney Poitier returns to the indelible character he created in In the Heat of the Night (1967) for the third and final time in The Organization (1971). In the first movie, Philadelphia police Lt. Virgil Tibbs, stranded in a small Southern town, becomes involved in a suspenseful murder investigation that served as the pretext for an examination of racial tension and the possibility for ...
- Don Medford, Jack N. Reddish, Les Sheldon
- Sidney Poitier
The Organization (1971) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
In the middle of the night in San Francisco, a group of six people wearing plastic masks pose as a maintenance crew in order to infiltrate the Century Furniture Factory. With silent efficiency, they kidnap factory manager John Bishop (Johnny Haymer), knock out guard George Morgan, and force Bishop to open the office vault, wherein lies their ...
