In the Heat of the Night
PG-13 · 1967 ‧ Thriller/Crime ‧ 1h 49m
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger), the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but...
Release date: August 2, 1967 (USA)
Director: Norman Jewison
Distributed by: United Artists
Adapted from: In the Heat of the Night