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In the Heat of the Night (1967)
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Brilliant Slice of Civil Rights America
Classic Poitier. Det. Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier at his best) finds himself in a small Southern town on the very night that a white man happens to be murdered. At first the sheriff (Rod Steiger relishing a role he has been waiting for since 1954's 'On The Waterfront') accuses Tibbs, but then learns that he is a homicide detective and thus reluctantly uses Tibbs to solve the murder. The film is alive with prejudice and hate, exposing the true feelings of many who resented the changing world under the civil rights movement. Steiger won the Best Actor Oscar and you can see why, but this film belongs to the young Poitier in a role that was so crucial to the times. One of the best films of the 1960's.
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