In the Heat of the Night (1967)
"They got a murder on their hands. They don’t know what to do with it."
Critics Score
🎬 86%
(RT: 96%, MC: 76) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Peter Whitney as Deputy Courtney
Anthony James as Ralph
Is In the Heat of the Night good?
Most people think so. 82% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 86%.
Where it ranks on ThumbScore
By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
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What Reddit Thinks
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Top comment: "This guy had one hell of a filmography R.I.P"
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Top comment: "Originally, the scene was written with Tibbs being slapped and then he immediately left the room..."