In the Heat of the Night

Name: In the Heat of the Night
Director: Norman Jewison
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Released: 1967-08-02
Rating: 7.679

They got a murder on their hands. They don’t know what to do with it.

Film19671h 49mReleased

DramaThrillerCrimeMystery

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Director: Norman Jewison
Language: English
Released: 1967-08-02
Runtime: 1h 49m

Community score

7.71,263 votes on TMDB

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Rating weighted by how many people voted

7.4

The story

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.