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Title:

In the heat of the night [videorecording] / The Mirisch Corporation presents ; the Norman Jewison/Walter Mirisch production ; screenplay by Stirling Silliphant ; produced by Walter Mirisch ; directed by Norman Jewison.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Edition:

DVD special edition.

Publisher:

Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

1 videodisc (110 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

Subject:

African American detectives--Drama.
Homicide investigation--Sparta--Sparta--Drama.
Racism--Sparta--Sparta--Drama.
Mississippi--Race relations--Drama.
African American detectives.
Homicide investigation.
Racism.
Detective and mystery films.
Crime films.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)
Crime films.
Detective and mystery films.
Drama.
Melodramas (Motion pictures)

Other Authors:

Jewison, Norman, 1926- film director.
Mirisch, Walter, film producer.
Silliphant, Stirling, 1918-1996, screenwriter.
Wexler, Haskell, director of photography.
Jones, Quincy, 1933- composer (expression)
Ashby, Hal, film editor.
Poitier, Sidney, actor.
Steiger, Rod, 1925-2002, actor.
Oates, Warren, 1928-1982, actor.
Grant, Lee, 1927- actor.
Gates, Larry, 1915-1996, actor.
Patterson, James, 1932-1972, actor.
Motion picture adaptation of (work): Ball, John Dudley, 1911-1988. In the heat of the night.
Mirisch Corporation, production company. production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Larry Gates, James Patterson. Title from title frame. Originally released as a motion picture in 1967. Based on the novel by John Ball. Wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio). New 4K digital restoration. Supplements: 2008 audio commentary with Norman Jewison, Haskell Wexler, Rod Steiger and Lee Grant; New interviews with director Norman Jewison and actor Lee Grant; Segment from a 2006 American Film Institute interview with actor Sidney Poitier; New interview with Aram Goudsouzian, author of Sidney Poitier: man, actor, icon; Turning up the heat: movie-making in the '60s, a 2008 program about the production of the film and its legacy, featuring Jewison, Wexler, producer Walter Mirisch, and filmmakers John Singleton and Reginald Hudlin; Quincy Jones: breaking new sound, a 2008 program about Jones's innovative soundtrack, including the title song sung by Ray Charles, featuring interviews with Jones, lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and musician Herbie Hancock; Trailer; on insert, An essay by critic K. Austin Collins.

Summary:

Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 959

ISBN:

1681435403
9781681435404

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1077711604

UPC:

715515225212

Locations:

YCPD572 -- Hiawatha Public Library (Hiawatha)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)