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In the Heat of the Night: Directed by Norman Jewison. 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.
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March 14, 1988. 48min. 13+. Police Chief Bill Gillespie and Chief of Detectives Virgil Tibbs are at odds when Tibbs suspects that Gillespie's friend, Sonny Mims, killed his wife because of his involvement with Pauline, the dead woman's cousin. Gillespie believes that the killing was the result of a drunken random shooter while Bubba Skinner has ...
October 22, 1990. 47min. 13+. A drug dealer runs over a young boy, but when Feds offer him freedom in exchange for his testimony, Gillespie and the boy's father take justice into their own hands. Entitled. Freevee (with ads) S4 E6 - Heart Of Gold. Watch on supported devices. October 29, 1990.
Show all movies in the JustWatch Streaming Charts. Streaming charts last updated: 1:16:25 PM, 05/22/2024. In the Heat of the Night is 5623 on the JustWatch Daily Streaming Charts today. The movie has moved up the charts by 2044 places since yesterday. In the United States, it is currently more popular than Osombie but less popular than MobKing.
In 1969, In the Heat of the Night was adapted to the stage in the Soviet Union. The adaptor added a scene at the end in which Tibbs boards the train home only to be forced to ride in the section reserved for black people. Following up on the success of In the Heat of the Night, Poitier starred as police detective Virgil Tibbs in two more films.
Synopsis. In the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name starring Carroll O'Connor as the white police chief William Gillespie, and Howard Rollins as the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. It was broadcast on NBC from 1988 until 1992, and then on CBS until 1995.
