In the Heat of the Night

Avg rating 8.2 / My rating TBC

1967 · Directed by Norman Jewison · With Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates

New Hollywood

Film info

Runtime: 1h 49m · 109 min
IMDb: 7.9 / 10 (92,488 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes: 96% (critics)
Metacritic: 76 / 100
TMDB: 7.7 / 10 (audience, 1,303 votes)
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About this film

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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