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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!
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
Summaries. In San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen. After a group of young revolutionaries break into a corporation's headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant ...
The Organization (1971) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
When an executive and a night watchman are killed in a San Francisco office building, Lt. Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is called in to investigate and discovers the watchman was actually killed ...
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- Don Medford
- PG-13
- Sidney Poitier
The Organization. Roger Ebert November 23, 1971. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. We first met Virgil Tibbs in "In the Heat of the Night," when he was a cop from Philadelphia. In "They Call Me Mister Tibbs," he moved to San Francisco and had a really elaborate hilltop home.
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 tolerance and understanding.
