In the Heat of the Night (1967)1h49
Crime · Drama · Mystery
Director Norman Jewison (6.9 avg)
Also directed The Hurricane, Moonstruck, Fiddler on the Roof, and 27 more
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
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Cast
Sidney Poitier
Rod Steiger
Warren Oates
Lee Grant
Larry Gates
James Patterson
William Schallert
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