In the Heat of the Night
They got a murder on their hands. They don’t know what to do with it.
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Timing:
1:49 (109 min)
7.6/10
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7.584/10
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7.9/10
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Country
Production
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Budget
$2 000 000
Revenue
$24 379 978
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Walter Mirisch
Operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- A film adaptation of John Ball's "A Hot Night in Caroline".
- Sidney Poitier insisted on filming in Illinois, remembering how he and Harry Belafonte (singer, actor, and activist) were nearly killed by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. The film was shot in Illinois, but the filmmakers once had to travel to Tennessee because there were no cotton plantations in Illinois where they could shoot some scenes. During filming in Tennessee, Poitier slept with a pistol under his pillow. Local racist organizations issued threats, and the film crew quickly returned to Illinois.
- The first major, full-color Hollywood project that took into account the participation of an actor with dark skin. Understanding that conventional lighting would inevitably cause glare on the skin of such actors, cinematographer Haskell Wexler (1922-2015) reduced the lighting in scenes with Sidney Poitier.
- The scene in the sheriff's house used dialogue that was improvised by Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger (1925-2002) themselves.
- The film is set in Mississippi in the summer, but was shot in Illinois in the fall. Therefore, the actors had to hold ice cubes in their mouths and spit them out before filming each take so that steam from their breath wouldn't be visible on screen during night scenes.
- A film adaptation of John Ball’s “A Hot Night in Carolina”.
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