1967’s In The Heat of the Night starring Sidney Poitier was a widely popular and critically acclaimed film. Starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, and Warren Oates, the mystery drama film tells the story of a black police detective from Philadelphia (Poitier), who was involved in a murder investigation in a small and racist town […]

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