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Title: In the Heat of the Night (The Criterion Collection)
Format: DVD
Condition: New
Number Of Discs: 1
Release Date: 29/01/2019
Actors: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger
Director: Norman Jewison
Audio Language: English
Runtime: 1 hour and 50 minutes
Region Code: DVD: 1 (US, Canada...)
Studio: Criterion Collection
Subtitle Language: English
Certificate: MPAA Not Rated
Description: 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. Director Norman Jewison splices incisive social commentary into this thrilling police procedural with the help of Haskell Wexler's vivid cinematography, Quincy Jones's eclectic score, and two indelible lead performances a career-defining display of seething indignation and moral authority from Poitier and an Oscar-winning master class in Method acting from Steiger. Winner of five Academy Awards, including for best picture, In the Heat of the Night is one of the most courageous Hollywood films of the civil rights era.

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