In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Name: In the Heat of the Night
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Released: 1967
Duration: 1 h 49 min
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Larry Gates

Hollywood movie · Crime, Drama, Mystery · 109 min · TMDB 7.7/10

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.

Cast: Sidney Poitier (Det. Virgil Tibbs), Rod Steiger (Police Chief Bill Gillespie), Warren Oates (Deputy Sam Wood), Lee Grant (Mrs. Leslie Colbert), Larry Gates (Eric Endicott), James Patterson (Mr. Purdy).

Directed by Norman Jewison.

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