‘In the Heat of the Night’: Examining Racism in the 60’s
The latest stop on my quest to see every single Best Picture winner in history: 1967’s In the Heat of the Night starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. It’s the story of Virgil Tibbs (Poitier), a homicide detective from Philadelphia who is accidentally picked up as a murder suspect in the small-town community of Sparta,…