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In the Heat of the Night

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

7.629 average rating
7.629
English / 109 MIN. / 1967

The Genres

The Synopsis

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.

The Cast

Sidney PoitierRod SteigerWarren OatesPeter WhitneyLee GrantAnthony JamesWilliam SchallertScott WilsonLarry GatesJames PattersonQuentin DeanKermit MurdockLarry D. MannMatt ClarkBeah RichardsArthur MaletFred StewartTimothy ScottWilliam WatsonEldon QuickJester HairstonStuart NisbetKhalil BezaleelPeter MastersonPhil AdamsNikita KnatzSam ReeseJack TeterAlan OppenheimerClegg HoytBuzz Barton

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