Irish Film Institute -IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

Director: NORMAN JEWISON

109 mins, USA, 1967, Digital


This film was released  4th November 2016, and is no longer screening.

“Understandably In the Heat of the Night cleaned up at that year’s Oscars”

★★★★ Empire

“A superior thriller which stands up well even when shorn of context”

– ★★★★★ Eye For Film

IFI CLASSIC

Made three years after the introduction of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and against the backdrop of continuing racial discrimination in the Deep South, Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night was groundbreaking for its direct approach to the subject of bigotry in an oppressive Mississippi town. The inimitable Sidney Poitier plays Virgil Tibbs, arrested for murder at the film’s outset for no other reason than the colour of his skin. When Police Chief Bill Gillespie, played by Rod Steiger, discovers Tibbs is a homicide detective passing through on his way home to Philadelphia, he not only drops the charges but compels him to stay in town to help him and his outfit of incompetent officers find the culprit. Innovatively shot by Haskell Wexlerand awarded five Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actor for Steiger, this seminal film remains as powerful and pertinent as it was upon release. (Notes by Alice Butler.)

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