1967 Best Picture

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In the Heat of the Night

“They got a murder on their hands. They don’t know what to do with it.”

1967

109 min

Rated PG-13

7.9IMDB

76Metacritic

Overview

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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CrimeDramaMysteryThriller

Director

Norman Jewison

Cast

Sidney PoitierRod SteigerWarren OatesPeter WhitneyLee GrantAnthony JamesWilliam SchallertScott Wilson

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Keywords

small townsouthern usapolice chiefstolen moneyracial segregationracistthiefmurderyouth gangracismwhodunitpovertyfalse accusationspolice stationracial tension+13 more