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Directed by Norman Jewison (Moonstruck) and starring Academy Award winners Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger and Lee Grant* this provocative mystery thriller won five Oscar in 1967 including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Writing. Highlighted by an evocative score from Oscar-winning composer Quincy Jones** and a controversial screenplay by Stirling Silliphant, In The Heat Of The Night is not only a "powerful film" (The New York Times) but also delivers the "highest level of exciting entertainment" (The New York Daily News)! While traveling in the deep south, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in a murder case when he is first accused of the crime - and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, especially when his efforts are constantly thwarted by the ignorant and bigoted town Sheriff (Steiger). But neither man can solve this case along. Putting aside their differences and prejudices, they join forces in a desperate...
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