IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT 1967 ....'It sure is Groovy!'

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includes Lee Grant as the victim's angry widow, Warren Oates as a voyeuristic deputy, and Scott Wilson as an unlucky fugitive. Also, not forgetting, Anthony James as Ralph, the creepy and sleazy diner counterman. The firm direction (Norman Jewison) and cinematography, capture both the shabbiness of the town and the beauty of the surrounding countryside. Although the film was set in the fictional Mississippi town of Sparta (no connection to the real Sparta, Mississippi), part of the movie ...