In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Watched Films - Anno 2024 (41 movies items)

"6.2.2024 - Youtube"

Academy Award for Best Picture☆Films (97 movies items)

"   40th Academy Awards (1968)"

The United Artists Story (1965-1969) (130 movies items)

"Released on August 2, 1967 Produced by The Mirisch Company Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Actor (Rod Steiger) and Best Screenplay based on material from another medium (Stirling Silliphant) The incredible success of this movie launched a franchise including two UA sequels: "They Call Me Mister Tibbs" (1970) and "The Organization" (1971) in which Sidney Poitier reprised his role as Virgil Tibbs. In 1988, NBC network and MGM Television premiered the one hour TV series "In the Heat"

My Favorite Films of the 1960s (25 movies items)

" "Now listen, hear me good mama. Please. Don't make me have to send you to jail... There's white time in jail and there's colored time in jail. The worst kind of time you can do is colored time." Directed by Norman Jewison Written by Stirling Silliphant Music by Quincy Jones Cinematography by Haskell Wexler Editing by Hal Ashby"

'23 Watched (319 movies items)

" Finished 6/04"

Sidney Poitier - Movies I've Viewed (17 person items)

" (1967) Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger"

Railway Station - Movies (29 movies items)

" Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger"

“(OK) Steiger is so great here that makes his fascist inteligent adn almost sympathetic. The thriller weighs too much but the character observation is always awake...” read more

Meus DVDs (3001 movies items)

"In the Heat of the Night (Norman Jewison, 1967) "

Leffapäiväkirja 2022 (68 movies items)

"Taas yksi leffa katsottu kaanonbacklogista. Ymmärrän elokuvan paikan historiallisesti tärkeänä kantaanottavana teoksena, mutta ihan puhtaasti elokuvana arvioiden In the Heat of the Night ei ole lopulta mikään kovin ihmeellinen tapaus. Rasismiteemaa käsitellään asiaankuuluvan suorapuheisesti, mutta toki myös varsin mustavalkoisesti (pardon the pun). Poitierin ja Steigerin roolityöt ja henkilöiden väliset dynamiikat ovat elokuvan ehdoton suola, itse tarinan ollessa varsin rutiininoma"

Movies I Saw In July 2021. (18 movies items)

"7/6/2021."

TCM's Essentials: 52 Must See Movies (52 movies items)

"“I’m not sure that people today really understand how important Sidney Poitier was to our culture. He was like the Jackie Robinson of the movies. He was the first black leading man with genuine star power, the first African American whose name on the marquee brought people to the theater. And when they came to see this movie, they saw a tough, intense film that went straight to the core of racism.” -Rob Reiner “It’s a film with a message to it, a really strong message, but it’s told"