In the Heat of the Night
Blu ray
Criterion
1967 / 1.85:1 / 110 Min. / Street Date – January 29, 2019
Starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
Cinematography by Haskell Wexler
Directed by Norman Jewison
The racial animus that roiled recent elections in Mississippi was a reminder of segregation’s cockroach-like resiliency in that state – it wasn’t until 2013 that its Secretary of State officially ratified the 13th amendment.
It’s safe to assume that volatile climate was even more combustible in 1966 when Sidney Poitier refused to venture south of the Mason-Dixon Line for the Mississippi-set In the Heat of the Night – less precarious locations were found but the actor still kept a gun under his pillow during production.
A hardboiled policier with Ray Charles on the soundtrack and the headlong urgency of politically-charged Euro thrillers like Z and Queimada, Norman Jewison’s countrified crime story stars Poitier as Virgil Tibbs, a Philadelphia detective waylaid at...
Blu ray
Criterion
1967 / 1.85:1 / 110 Min. / Street Date – January 29, 2019
Starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
Cinematography by Haskell Wexler
Directed by Norman Jewison
The racial animus that roiled recent elections in Mississippi was a reminder of segregation’s cockroach-like resiliency in that state – it wasn’t until 2013 that its Secretary of State officially ratified the 13th amendment.
It’s safe to assume that volatile climate was even more combustible in 1966 when Sidney Poitier refused to venture south of the Mason-Dixon Line for the Mississippi-set In the Heat of the Night – less precarious locations were found but the actor still kept a gun under his pillow during production.
A hardboiled policier with Ray Charles on the soundtrack and the headlong urgency of politically-charged Euro thrillers like Z and Queimada, Norman Jewison’s countrified crime story stars Poitier as Virgil Tibbs, a Philadelphia detective waylaid at...
- 1/29/2019
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
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