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In the Heat of the Night

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Calorie Rating: 153
Released: 1967-08-02
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 109 Minutes
Budget: 2000000
Revenue 27379978
Studios: United Artists, The Mirisch Company,


African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

Director / Directors

Meta Rebner
Script Supervisor
Terry Morse Jr.
First Assistant Director

Newt Arnold
Second Assistant Director


Cast

Sidney Poitier
Character: Virgil Tibbs
Rod Steiger
Character: Police Chief Bill Gillespie
Warren Oates
Character: Deputy Sam Wood

Peter Whitney
Character: Deputy Courtney
Lee Grant
Character: Mrs. Leslie Colbert
Anthony James
Character: Ralph

William Schallert
Character: Mayor Schubert
Scott Wilson
Character: Harvey Oberst
Larry Gates
Character: Eric Endicott

James Patterson
Character: Mr. Purdy
Quentin Dean
Character: Delores Purdy
Kermit Murdock
Character: Henderson

Larry D. Mann
Character: Watkins
Matt Clark
Character: Packy
Beah Richards
Character: Mama Caleba

Arthur Malet
Character: Ulam
Fred Stewart
Character: Dr. Stuart
Timothy Scott
Character: Shagbag

William Watson
Character: McNeil
Eldon Quick
Character: Charles Hawthorne
Jester Hairston
Character: Endicott's Butler

Stuart Nisbet
Character: Shuie
Khalil Bezaleel
Character: Jess
Peter Masterson
Character: Fryer

Phil Adams
Character: 1st Tough
Nikita Knatz
Character: 2nd Tough
Sam Reese
Character: Clerk

Jack Teter
Character: Philip Colbert (uncredited)
Alan Oppenheimer
Character: Ted Appleton (uncredited)
Clegg Hoyt
Character: Deputy (uncredited)

Buzz Barton
Character: Conductor (uncredited)


Production and Crew


Quincy Jones
Original Music Composer
Haskell Wexler
Director of Photography

Paul Groesse
Art Direction
Robert Priestley
Set Decoration

Alan Levine
Costume Design
Del Armstrong
Makeup Artist
Jim Henderling
Production Manager

Howard Joslin
Unit Production Manager
Allen K. Wood
Production Supervisor
Joseph Musso
Production Illustrator

Clem Portman
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Ralph Gerling
Camera Operator


Byron 'Buzz' Brandt
Assistant Editor
Richard Carruth
Music Editor

James A. Richards
Sound Editor
Murray Naidich
Title Designer

Hal Ashby
Producer's Assistant
Wayne Fitzgerald
Title Designer