In the Heat of the Night

Release Date:

Aug 2, 1967

Running Time:

1:49

Genre:

Crime Drama

Director:

Norman Jewison

Cast:

Sidney Poitier	Virgil Tibbs
Rod Steiger	Bill Gillespie
Warren Oates	Sam Wood
Quentin Dean	Delores Purdy
James Patterson	Purdy, Delores' brother
William Schallert	Mayor Webb Schubert
Jack Teter	Philip Colbert (uncredited)
Lee Grant	Mrs. Leslie Colbert
Scott Wilson	Harvey Oberst
Matt Clark	Packy Harrison
Anthony James	Ralph Henshaw
Larry Gates	Eric Endicott
Kermit Murdock	H.E. Henderson
Khalil Bezaleel	Jess
Beah Richards	Mama Caleba
Peter Whitney	George Courtney
William Watson	Harold Courtney
Timothy Scott	``Shagbag'' Martin
Alan Oppenheimer	Ted Appleton (uncredited)

Producers:

Walter Mirisch

Language:

English

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Ghosts of Mississippi

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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