Running time109 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$2 millionBox office$24.3 millionIn the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American directed. It is based on 's 1965 and tells the story of, a black police from, who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a small town in. It stars and, and was produced.
The screenplay was by.The film won five, including the awards for and Rod Steiger for.The film was followed by two, in 1970, and in 1971. In 1988, it also became the basis of a adaptation of the same name.Although the film was set in the fictional Mississippi town of Sparta (with supposedly no connection to the real ), most of the movie was filmed in, where many of the film's landmarks can still be seen. The quote 'They call me Mister Tibbs! ' was listed as number 16 on the 's, a list of top film quotes. In 2002, the film was selected for preservation in the United States by the as being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'. Contents.Plot In 1966, a wealthy industrialist named Phillip Colbert has moved from to to build a factory. One night, police officer Sam Wood discovers that Colbert has been murdered.Chief Gillespie leads the investigation.
A doctor estimates that Colbert had been dead for a few hours. Wood finds a black man, at the train station and arrests him. Gillespie accuses Tibbs of the murder, but is embarrassed to learn he is a police officer from. Gillespie phones Tibbs's chief, who informs Gillespie that he is a top homicide detective and recommends that Tibbs should assist the investigation. This idea appeals to neither Gillespie or Tibbs, but they reluctantly agree.Gillespie arrests another suspect, but Tibbs clears him. The victim's widow is frustrated by the ineptitude of the police and impressed by Tibbs. She threatens to halt construction of the factory unless Tibbs leads the investigation.
The two policemen begin to respect each other as they are forced to work together.Tibbs initially suspects plantation owner Endicott, a racist who publicly opposes the new factory. When Tibbs attempts to interrogate Endicott, Endicott slaps him in the face and Tibbs slaps him back. Endicott sends a gang of hooligans after Tibbs.
Gillespie rescues him from the fight and tells him to leave town for his safety, but Tibbs is convinced he can solve the case. He examines Colbert's body and suggests the murder happened earlier than initially thought. He examines Colbert's car and deduces that Colbert was murdered elsewhere and the culprit moved the body. Tibbs asks Wood to retrace his car patrol route on the night of the murder, and Gillespie joins them. When Tibbs notices that Wood has changed his route, Gillespie starts suspecting Wood, though Tibbs hints there is another reason.Gillespie discovers that Wood made a sizable deposit into his bank account the day after the murder while Purdy, a local, files charges against Wood for getting his 16-year-old sister Delores pregnant. Gillespie arrests Wood, despite Tibbs's protests, and Delores is interrogated. Purdy is offended that a black man was present at the interrogation, and he gathers a mob to get revenge.
Tibbs reveals that the murder was committed at the site of the planned factory and clears Wood. He also admits that he knew why Wood had changed his route: Delores is an and Wood has been spying on her.Tibbs visits a, who reveals that someone paid for Delores to have an abortion.
When Delores arrives, Tibbs follows her outside and is confronted by the murderer, Ralph. Purdy's mob tracks down Tibbs and holds him at gunpoint; he responds by proving that Ralph got Delores pregnant. Ralph shoots Purdy dead before Tibbs disarms him.
Ralph is arrested and confesses to Colbert's murder: He robbed Colbert to fund Delores's abortion but accidentally killed him.The final scene shows Tibbs boarding a train bound for Philadelphia, as Gillespie respectfully bids him farewell.Cast. as.
as Gillespie. as Sam Wood. as Mrs. Colbert.
as Endicott. as Mr. Purdy.
as Mayor Schubert. as Mama Caleba. as Courtney. as Henderson. as Watkins. as Packy. as Ulam.
Fred Stewart as Dr. Stuart. as Delores. as Harvey Oberst. as Shagbag. as McNeil. as Charles Hawthorne.
as Shuie. Khalil Bezaleel as Jess. as Fryer.
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as butler. Phil Adams as 1st tough. Nikita Knatz as 2nd tough.
Sam Reese as clerk. as RalphUncredited. as policeman. as policeman.This was Hoyt's final acting role, as he died two months after the film's release.Production Jewison, Poitier, and Steiger worked together and got along well during the filming, but Jewison had problems with the Southern authorities, and Poitier had reservations about coming south of the for filming. However, despite their reservations, Jewison decided to film part of the film in and, Tennessee, anyway while the rest was filmed in Sparta, (Harvey Oberst chase scene), and (Compton's diner), Illinois.The famous scene of Tibbs slapping Endicott is not present in the novel. According to Poitier, the scene was almost not in the movie.
In the textbook Civil Rights and Race Relations in the USA 1850-2009 (Access to History), Poitier states: 'I said, 'I'll tell you what, I'll make this movie for you if you give me your absolute guarantee when he slaps me I slap him right back and you guarantee that it will play in every version of this movie.' I try not to do things that are against nature.' However, Poitier's version of the story is contradicted by in his book, Pictures at a Revolution. Harris states that copies of the original draft of the screenplay that he obtained clearly contain the scene as filmed, which is backed up by Jewison and Silliphant.The film is also important for being the first major Hollywood film in color that was lit with proper consideration for a black person. Recognized that standard strong lighting used in filming tended to produce too much glare on dark complexions and rendered the features indistinct. Accordingly, Wexler toned it down to feature Poitier with better photographic results. Soundtrack In the Heat of the Nightby.
Released1967Recorded1967Length33: 34UAL 4160/UAS 5160chronology(1966)In the Heat of the Night(1967)(1967)The was composed, arranged and conducted by, and the was released on the label in 1967. The performed by, composed by, with lyrics by was released as a single by and reached #33 on the chart and #21 on the chart.Professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRating's Steven McDonald said the soundtrack had 'a tone of righteous fury woven throughout' and that 'the intent behind In the Heat of the Night was to get a Southern, blues-inflected atmosphere to support the angry, anti-racist approach of the picture.
Although the cues from In the Heat of the Night show their age'. Said 'this soundtrack to a film about racism in the South has a cool, decidedly Southern-fried sound with funk-bottomed bluesy touches, like on the strutting 'Cotton Curtain', the down 'n' dirty 'Whipping Boy' or the fat 'n' sassy 'Chief's Drive to Mayor'. Track listing All compositions by Quincy Jones. ' (Lyrics by ) — 2:30. 'Peep-Freak Patrol Car' — 1:30. 'Cotton Curtain' — 2:33. 'Where Whitey Ain't Around' — 1:11.
'Whipping Boy' — 1:25. 'No You Won't' — 1:34.
'Nitty Gritty Time' — 1:50. 'It Sure Is Groovy!' — 2:30 (Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman). 'Bowlegged Polly' — 2:30 (Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman). 'Shag Bag, Hounds & Harvey' — 3:28. 'Chief's Drive to Mayor' —1:10. 'Give Me Until Morning' — 1:09.
'On Your Feet, Boy!' July 17, 1967. Retrieved November 13, 2014. Tino Balio, United Artists: The Company that Changed the Film Industry, Uni of Wisconsin Press, 1987 p 187. Retrieved March 8, 2012. Civil Rights and Race Relations in the USA 1850-2009 (Access to History), Vivienne Sanders, Hodder Education, 2015.
Harris, Mark. Pictures at a Revolution: Five Films and the Birth of a New Hollywood. Penguin Press, 2008, p. 221. accessed January 17, 2018. Edwards, D & Callahan, M., accessed January 17, 2018. ^ McDonald, Steven.
At., The Vinyl Factory, accessed January 19, 2018. Harris, pp. 288–90. Harris, p. 336. Harris, pp.
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of the. Retrieved October 18, 2016. Later, Poitier did the sequels and, but both films failed at the box office. Retrieved March 9, 2012. Academy Film Archive. Retrieved August 25, 2011.External links Wikiquote has quotations related to:.
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An pregnant African-American teen-age girl, Shawna Hughes, is caught shoplifting a jacket for her younger brother. Virgil Tibbs interrogates her, and Bill Gillespie releases her.
She goes to the freight company to confront Dan Mackey, father of her child, who is unconcerned. That night she has premature contractions, sneaks out of the house, and has her baby in the woods. Unknown to Shawna, someone witnesses the birth. The dead infant is discovered at the city dump, and Althea Tibbs guesses who the mother is. Martin Campbell, Shawna's step-father, and her mother, Louise Hughes, are thoroughly supportive. When Virgil questions Shawna, she admits killing the baby, but Virgil thinks she is covering for someone.
Chapter 2 'Lying down was out of the question'Summary:It is so crowded inside the cattle wagon that people have to take turns to sit down. They travel for two days, and the heat, crowding, and lack of food and drink is becoming unbearable. Social constraints become stripped away, and young people openly have sex, with everyone pretending not to notice. The wagons stop at Kaschau, a town on the Czechoslovak frontier, and everyone realizes that they will not be staying in Hungary as expected. A German officer explains to them that they are now under the authority of the German army. He takes all their valuables and threatens to shoot everybody in a wagon if even a single person escapes.A fifty-year-old woman named Madamae Schaechter is on the train with her ten-year-old son. She had been separated from her husband and two older sons earlier and is now beginning to lose her mind.
She starts screaming hysterically about a fire and a furnace that she claims to see in the distance. At first, she terrifies the people in her wagon, and they rush to see what she is pointing at out the window. After hours of her screaming, the people on the train can take no more, and they tie her up, gag her, and begin beating her to make her stop screaming about the fire.
She breaks free from her restraints and periodically screams throughout the night, until everyone else on the train feels like they are about to go mad too. Finally, the wagons arrive at Auschwitz, which they are told is a labor camp where conditions are good. People's spirits lift, although continues to scream. As the train pulls into the camp, everyone suddenly sees the flames and chimney that Madame Schaechter had prophesied. When her vision finally materializes, Madame Schaechter becomes silent.
Everyone is forced to get out of the train, amidst the smell of burning flesh. They are at Birkenau, the reception center for Auschwitz.Analysis:In this section of the novel, we catch our first glimpse of how human behavior changes when people are placed in extreme circumstances. After being confined in a small, cramped wagon with no food, water, or sanitation, the young people submit to their animal instincts and copulate without even considering the people around them. If people are not respected as individuals within society and are instead treated as animals, as the Jews are, then they will begin to act as animals, without regard to the usual social conventions and responsibilities. In addition to the physical torture and extermination that the Nazis submitted the Jews to, it is this kind of mental and psychological torture that may have proved most damaging to Holocaust survivors. Through a variety of methods that will be detailed in coming sections of the book, the Nazis denied the Jews (and other inhabitants of the concentration camps) their humanity and led them to behave in crude, brutal, and uncivilized ways.
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Confined in small spaces and denied their individuality, the Jews become anonymous beings concerned solely with their own survival. They were no longer people to the Nazis, and unable to prove that they were not simply animals, they began to act as if they were.Another striking example of this theme occurs with the people's treatment of Madame Schaechter. Though she is a fifty-year-old woman and obviously unwell, she is beaten repeatedly about the head by young men trying to silence her. And her little boy says nothing: 'They struck her several times on the headblows that might have killed her. Her little boy clung to her; he did not cry out; he did not say a word. He was not even weeping now.'
The people in the wagon treat her cruelly and inhumanely, as they undoubtedly would not have done under normal circumstances, but Wiesel does not condemn them for their brutal actions. Instead, his tone in this passage is very sad, full of regret and guilt. Since Madame Schaechter's hysterical shrieks was unnerving everyone in the car, he recognizes that it was necessary for their collective survival that she be silenced. At the same time, however, he seems to mourn the fact that such cruel behavior was necessary and that everyone, including the woman's own son, condoned such violent and vicious behavior. In this nightmare world that the Nazis have created for the Jews, survival is the only concern, and human emotions and affective ties become irrelevant.Silence is an important theme in Night. In the first section Wiesel is preoccupied with how silent and complacent the pre-deportation Jews are and how they quietly and unknowingly go straight to their doom. The Jews do not believe anything bad can happen to them, they do not despair, and they quietly pass up on opportunities to escape.
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In this section, however, the silence (and generally quiet tone of the novel) is violently shattered by the hysterical screaming of Madame Schaechter. Her violent shrieks are what finally destroy the trusting naivete of the Jews and begin to make them afraid of what is to happen to them: 'The heat, the thirst, the pestilential stench, the suffocating lack of airthese were as nothing compared with these screams which tore us to shreds. A few days more and we should all have started to scream too.' Her screaming symbolizes the hellish world of insanity that they have entered into, as opposed to the world of calm, quiet, and security that they have just left behind.When the caravan arrives at Auschwitz, they receive news that is horribly false: 'There was a labor camp. Conditions were good.
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Families would not be split up. Only the young people would go to work in the factories. The old men and invalids would be kept occupied in the fields.' As they will soon discover, Auschwitz is one of the most notorious of the Nazi death-camps. This passage is an example of dramatic irony because the characters think one thing while the reader knows what is actually true. How To Cite in MLA Format Moon, Jennifer.
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