A Glean movie pick

In the Heat of the Night

Name: In the Heat of the Night
Director: Norman Jewison
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Released: 1967-08-02
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Larry Gates

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

1967
1h 49m
Crime
Drama
Mystery
★ 7.7

Directed by Norman Jewison

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The story

About In the Heat of the Night

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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