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In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American 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.
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.
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 and was broadcast on NBC from March 6, 1988-May 19, 1992 before moving ...
In the Heat of the Night: Created by James Lee Barrett. With Carroll O'Connor, Alan Autry, David Hart, Hugh O'Connor. The cases and adventures of the police forces in and around Sparta, Mississippi.
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...
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger), the racist...
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.
