In the Heat of the Night

7.6

United States Of America

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

109 min

1967

Larry D. Mann Clegg Hoyt Alan Oppenheimer Peter Masterson Stuart Nisbet William Watson Timothy Scott Fred Stewart Arthur Malet Beah Richards Matt Clark Sidney Poitier Quentin Dean James Patterson Larry Gates Scott Wilson William Schallert Anthony James Lee Grant Peter Whitney Warren Oates Rod Steiger

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.