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You can watch In the Heat of the Night (1967) on Hoopla with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
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.
Virgil Tibbs must navigate a minefield of Southern prejudice to clear his name and solve a local murder. This collision of intellect and raw bigotry turns a routine investigation into a searing confrontation between two men on opposite sides of a racial divide.
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Norman Jewison
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Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Peter Whitney, Lee Grant, Anthony James, William Schallert, Scott Wilson, Larry Gates, James Patterson
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In the Heat of the Night
You can watch In the Heat of the Night (1967) on Hoopla with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.
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7.7/10
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96%
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Director
Norman Jewison
Cast
Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Peter Whitney, Lee Grant, Anthony James, William Schallert, Scott Wilson, Larry Gates, James Patterson
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