Directed by Norman Jewison | Starring: Warren Oates, Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Matt Clark

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only... Read more

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