In the Heat of the Night
They got a murder on their hands. They don’t know what to do with it.
Part of Virgil Tibbs Trilogy
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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.
Production
United Artists, The Mirisch Company
Language
EN
Status
Released
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Cast
Sidney Poitier
Virgil Tibbs
Rod Steiger
Police Chief Bill Gillespie
Warren Oates
Deputy Sam Wood
Peter Whitney
Deputy Courtney
Lee Grant
Mrs. Leslie Colbert
Anthony James
Ralph
William Schallert
Mayor Schubert
Scott Wilson
Harvey Oberst
Larry Gates
Eric Endicott
James Patterson
Mr. Purdy
Quentin Dean
Delores Purdy
Kermit Murdock
Henderson
Larry D. Mann
Watkins
Matt Clark
Packy
Beah Richards
Mama Caleba
Arthur Malet
Ulam
Fred Stewart
Dr. Stuart
Timothy Scott
Shagbag
William Watson
McNeil
Eldon Quick
Charles Hawthorne
More from Virgil Tibbs Trilogy
They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
The Organization
Recommended
Dark Blue
One False Move
The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain
Rebel Ridge
Mississippi Burning
Marked for Death
Death Sentence
In the Electric Mist
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Desert Dawn
Rust Creek
The Substitute 2: School's Out
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