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Jul 22, 2014 · An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.Director:Norman JewisonWriters:Stirling Silliphant ...
- 4 min
- 81K
- Nishan Wimalasuriya
Feb 21, 2021 · African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger), the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi....
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- Amazon MGM Studios
Aug 7, 2022 · Head-on tackling the overt racism and life-threatening realities of being a black citizen in Mississippi. Taken on by the commanding presence of Sidney as Virgil Tibbs. Tibbs, a Philadelphia police...
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Jan 24, 2010 · A clip from In the Heat of the Night (1967).(For use in a seminar on Sidney Poitier)
In the Heat of the Night. 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.
- (84K)
- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Norman Jewison
- 1967-08-02
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. Starring: Sidney Poitier Rod Steiger Warren Oates Larry Gates Lee Grant James Patterson Beah Richards. Directed by: Norman Jewison.
- Norman Jewison
- January 1, 1967
- 110 min
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In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American neo-noir mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewison, produced by Walter Mirisch, and starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. It tells the story of Virgil Tibbs (Poitier), a Black police detective from Philadelphia, who becomes embroiled in a murder investigation in a small town in Mississippi.
