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In the Heat of the Night

In the Heat of the Night

Norman Jewison, 1967

Spine #959

Picked by 1 guest

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Criterion Letterboxd TMDB

Directed by Norman Jewison

Written by Stirling Silliphant

Cinematography Haskell Wexler

Edited by Hal Ashby

Cast Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Peter Whitney, Lee Grant, Anthony James, William Schallert, Scott Wilson

Picked by

Glenn Close

“Another movie that I absolutely love is In the Heat of the Night. And I just watched it again recently, and it is one of the great, great performances of Sidney Poitier. And of course, the moment in the movie is when he slaps. Rod Steiger plays the police. There’s one moment at the very end that I wished hadn’t happened. When Sidney Poitier gets back on the train and he looks back at Steiger, he smiles. And when I last saw it, I thought, 'He shouldn’t have smiled.'”