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      • R acism is a topic that is generally ignored by Hollywood, which prefers to present an image of the United States as a country where everyone gets along. But the 1967 film In the Heat of the Night, based on a novel by John Ball, directly addresses the racism faced by blacks in the southern states.
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  1. Jun 8, 2018 · The crime drama features Sidney Poitier as a black detective who suffers racial slurs and humiliation at the hands of a white police chief (Rod Steiger) while he tries to solve a murder in a...

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  3. THE hot surge of racial hate and prejudice that is so evident and critical now in so many places in this country, not alone in the traditional area of the Deep South, is fictionally isolated in...

  4. Feb 2, 2024 · How Sidney Poitier's iconic role in 'In the Heat of the Night' reshaped Hollywood's racial narrative, marking a pivotal shift in cinema's approach to civil rights.

  5. Jan 4, 2016 · Jan 4, 2016. The popular TV series, In the Heat of the Night, which was based on the 1967 Sidney Poitier film of the same name, became a groundbreaking, water-cooler show when it debuted in...

  6. A white Southern police chief and a black detective put aside racial animosity to solve crimes in a Mississippi hamlet. This tense drama was inspired by the Oscar-winning 1967 film, which was...

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  7. Jan 7, 2022 · Led by the world’s biggest African-American star, Sidney Poitier, In the Heat of the Night was Black America literally striking back against the years of horrific treatment they had faced. The narrative follows Virgil Tibbs, a black police detective from Philadelphia, who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a small town, Sparta, in ...

  8. 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.

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