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In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Sidney Poitier , Rod Steiger  |  PG |  DVD
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (140 customer reviews)

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Product Details

  • Actors: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Larry Gates
  • Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
  • Subtitles: French
  • Dubbed: Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
  • DVD Release Date: January 9, 2001
  • Run Time: 109 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (140 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000053VBH
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,085 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "In the Heat of the Night" on IMDb

Special Features

  • Audio Commentary by director and cast

Editorial Reviews

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Both riveting murder mystery and classic fish-out-of-water yarn, Norman Jewison's Oscar-winning In the Heat of the Night represents Hollywood at its wiliest, cloaking exposé in the most entertaining trappings. Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger prove the decade's most formidable antagonists. Poitier plays Virgil Tibbs, an arrogant homicide detective waylaid in Sparta, Mississippi; Steiger, in his bravura Oscar-winning turn, is Bill Gillespie, the town's hardheaded, bigoted sheriff who first arrests Tibbs for murder and then begs for his expertise. As the clues and suspects mount, Gillespie and his deputies develop begrudging respect for the black officer. The first-rate supporting cast includes Lee Grant as the victim's angry widow, Warren Oates as a voyeuristic deputy, William Schallert as the pragmatic mayor, and, in his screen debut, Scott Wilson (In Cold Blood) as an unlucky fugitive. The brilliant widescreen cinematography is by Haskell Wexler, and the scat-music score is by Quincy Jones. Ray Charles wails the blues theme song. --Glenn Lovell

Product Description

Starring Academy AwardÂ(r) winners* Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger and Lee Grant, this provocative mystery thriller won** five 1967 OscarsÂ(r), including Best Picture. Highlighted by an evocative score from OscarÂ(r)-winning*** composer Quincy Jones, In The Heat Of The Night is a "powerful film" (The New York Times) that delivers the "highest level of exciting entertainment" (New York Daily News)! While traveling in the Deep South, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in the murder investigationof a prominent businessman when he is first accused of the crimeand then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, however, especially when his efforts are constantly thwarted by the bigoted town sheriff (Steiger). But neither man can solve this case alone. Putting aside their differences and prejudices, they join forces in a desperate race against time to discover the shocking truth. *Poitier: Actor, Lilies of the Field (1963); Steiger: Actor, In the Heat of the Night (1967); Grant: Supporting Actress, Shampoo (1975) **Actor (Steiger), Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Sound ***1994: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Customer Reviews

Now, I finally see the movie like I never seen a side of it before. Austin Somlo  |  28 reviewers made a similar statement
Sidney Poitier at his [usual] best, and a great performance by Rod Steiger as well. daylily12  |  32 reviewers made a similar statement
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119 of 128 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars ALWAYS READ EVERYONE'S REVIEW... February 4, 2008
Format:DVD
You know, that old saying, "Opinions, is like...(You know), everyone has one? I suppose, that can also apply to movie reviews, too. I read the review, that someone sent in, on the 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition of, IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT. It was very enlightening, but there was something about it, that just didn't make sense. That person indicated in their review, that there wasn't anything different in the 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition DVD, of IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, which was released a few weeks ago, from the original DVD version, which was released, in 2005. When I read that person's review, I said to myself, "Well, there's no sense buying it again, just for the movie alone". Then, it occurred to me. Why would the studios release a great movie, like this one, on DVD...call it, "The 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition"...and not have any special features, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the film? According to the review, of that person, and unfortunately, according the lack of special features info, on the Amazon page, I believed that person, and Amazon...Until the other night, when I saw the "The 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition" DVD of IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, in the store. I flipped the cover around only to find out that there're not 1...not 2, but 3 featurettes:
1) TURNING UP THE HEAT: MOVIE-MAKING IN THE 1960'S
2) THE SLAP HEARD AROUND THE WORLD
3) QUNICY JONES: BREAKING NEW SOUND...(Which is worth buying the DVD for)
So, I bought it. I suppose, the point of all of this is. Actually, there're two points:
Don't go by only one's opinion or one's review, and the most important point: Amazon, you have a great web page, and we all know that you're trying to cut costs, but remember: You're trying to save, but in long run, you'll be losing...losing money and customers.
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51 of 54 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Two Great Actors in a Great Movie May 19, 2002
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Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger almost set the screen afire in this film that deservedly won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1967. Superbly directed by Norman Jewison, the movie brings us into deepest Mississippi one summer midnight, when a northern industrialist with plans to build a new factory is found murdered in the middle of Sparta's main street. At the same time, Virgil Tibbs, a black detective from Los Angeles, is waiting at the station for the train that will take him back home from visiting his mother.

This being Mississippi, and a black man out after dark, it must have been the black man who committed the murder, right? Tibbs is hauled into the sheriff's office and brought face to face with Bill Gillespie, the epitome of every redneck law officer south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Gillespie's reaction to Tibbs is first contempt (this is a black man after all), suspicion at his full wallet ("Boy, that's more in a week than I make in a month, now where did you earn that?"), and finally shock, when Tibbs hurls the response into his face, "I'm a police officer."

Gillespie is further stunned to realize that Tibbs' contempt for him is at least as great as his for Tibbs, when he hears Tibbs telling his superiors over the phone "They got a murder on their hands, they don't know what to do with it." Tibbs' boss volunteers Tibbs's services as a homicide expert to Gillespie, who doesn't particularly want to accept, but he doesn't have much of a choice; the industrialist's widow says if her husband's murder isn't solved and fast, there won't be any factory anywhere. The resulting reluctant partnership between the two men is a pairing unlike any seen on screen; they resent each other but they can't solve the crime without each other; Gillespie needs Tibbs' expertise, and Tibbs needs Gillespie's protection from the local rednecks who want him dead.

The movie wonderfully evokes the atmosphere of a small town in the deep south, the abject poverty in which most of the blacks in the area lived, and the attitudes of the whites in town that made it dangerous for any black man to stand tall as a man. At the movie's end, Gillespie hasn't changed his views about blacks, but he has come to respect Tibbs as a lawman and as a human being; and Tibbs comes to realize that inside of Gillespie's hardshell racist attitudes is a decent man struggling to get out. The acting, the directing, and above all, Quincy Jones's magnificent score, made this one of the best movies of the 1960's and for years beyond.

Judy Lind
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30 of 35 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars I may be biased but..... March 25, 2008
Format:DVD
I live in Sparta Illinois where the movie was filmed in the fall of 1966. It took several viewings back in 1967 before I could get past the "I know whose house that is," and " Why did Stieger drive all the way around the block to get to the Mayor's place?"
Anyway, I wanted to add that the sound quality on this release is excellent. You can hear the rocks popping off of the police car's tires as Warren Oates slowly drives away from the diner. I also found the extras to be most interesting. The one on Quincy Jones and the soundtrack was very informative.
To fans of the film and its companions in the 1967 Oscar race I would also recomend "Pictures at A Revolution: Five movies and the Birth of the new Hollywood" by Mark Harris.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Just keep going back and watching it
Every time we watch this movie we pick up something new. For example:

One of the memorable lines in the movie is : Sheriff - "What do they call you up there in... Read more
Published 4 days ago by E. Connolly
4.0 out of 5 stars Dated but entertaining
We had just watched an interview with Sidney Poitier in which he insisted that a scene be rewritten in this movie. Read more
Published 5 days ago by Romans
5.0 out of 5 stars In the HEAT of the NIGHT
This is one of the best movies ever made. Just the thought of Rod Steiger sittng as his desk cracks me up.
Published 10 days ago by Mike Maus
3.0 out of 5 stars Good film
I enjoyed this film and its fine cast... but I expected something a little better. I grew up in the 60s, and there is just something about this film that didn't hit the spot for... Read more
Published 12 days ago by James L. Nolt
5.0 out of 5 stars Another Great Classic!
I love any movie with Sidney Poitier in it. I also loved the series, “In The Heat of The Night”.
Published 14 days ago by Donna
5.0 out of 5 stars HEAT OF THE NIGHT
I THOUGHT SIDNEY WAS GREAT AS USUAL. HE IS SUCH A DRAMATIC ACTOR. I ALSO LOVED HIM IN TO SIR WITH LOVE, AND GUESS WHOSE COMING TO DINNER.
Published 14 days ago by Jan Abelovsky
5.0 out of 5 stars Good story, powerful commentary, better than the book
So that you will understand I love to read. I prefer books to movies for the most part. However in the case of In the Heat of the Night, I like the movie better than the book. Read more
Published 17 days ago by Wanda Tillman
5.0 out of 5 stars SLAPPING WHITE HONKY BIGOTS SHOULD BE REQUIRED FOR ALL AFRO-AMERICANS
SIDNEY POITER is just awesome as "MR. TIBBS"in my opinion this movie should replace
that long silly boring "CITIZEN KANE"as AFI'S
#1 MOST POPU;LAR movie... Read more
Published 22 days ago by michaelA. Rosing
5.0 out of 5 stars One of my al time favorites
Sidney Poitier at his [usual] best, and a great performance by Rod Steiger as well. Explores interracial prejudices and relationships at several levels - professional, personal... Read more
Published 29 days ago by daylily12
5.0 out of 5 stars SUPER CLASSIC
One of the best movies made in the sixties! Great cast, classic soundtrack! Well worth the watch and purchase without the typical Hollywood BS and unnecessary language.
Published 1 month ago by Rick M.
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