![[Book #168479] In the Heat of the Night. Sidney Poitier Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Rod Stieger, Norman Jewison, John Ball, Stirling Silliphant, starring, director, novel, screenwriter.](https://royalbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/168479.jpeg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1769406823)
In the Heat of the Night
N.p. N.p., Circa 1967. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1967 film, showing Warren Oates on the set.
Based on John Ball's 1965 novel. An African-American police detective from Philadelphia is recruited to help solve a murder in a small, bigoted Mississippi town. The film dealt skillfully with the topic of race relations in the South during the Civil Rights movement, and included a controversial scene in which a white actor, Larry Gates, slaps Poitier in the face, at which point Poitier slaps him right back. It was said you could determine the racial makeup of a theater by their verbal reaction to the scene: cheers for a predominantly Black audience, or whispers for a predominantly white one.
Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture, and nominated for two others.
Though set in the fictional town of Sparta, Mississippi, Poitier refused to travel below the Mason-Dixon Line, so the film was shot largely in Illinois.
8 x 10 inches. Fine.
National Film Registry. Penzler 101.
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Price: $250.00