Movie • 1967 • 1h 49m • Crime / Drama / Mystery
In the Heat of the Night
Story
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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Cast
Sidney Poitier as Det. Virgil TibbsRod Steiger as Police Chief Bill GillespieWarren Oates as Deputy Sam WoodLee Grant as Mrs. Leslie ColbertLarry Gates as Eric EndicottJames Patterson as Mr. PurdyWilliam Schallert as Mayor SchubertBeah Richards as Mama CalebaPeter Whitney as Deputy CourtneyKermit Murdock as Henderson
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