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    In the Heat of the Night 1967 POSTER

    In the Heat of the Night

    1967

    English

    7.9

    48

    96%

    92%

    Action

    black people

    Crime

    Drama

    Mystery

    old

    police chief

    pre-code

    small town

    southern usa

    Thriller

    Norman Jewison Norman Jewison Director Lee Grant Lee Grant as Mrs. Colbert Anthony James Anthony James as Ralph Warren Oates Warren Oates as Sam Wood Stuart Nisbet Stuart Nisbet as Shuie
    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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