In the Heat of the Night update feed
" "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"
"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"
"“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"