Overview - In the Heat of the Night

Overview

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 his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.

Cast

• Name: Sidney Poitier

  Character: Virgil Tibbs

  Popularity: 7.923

  

• Name: Rod Steiger

  Character: Police Chief Bill Gillespie

  Popularity: 5.754

  

• Name: Warren Oates

  Character: Deputy Sam Wood

  Popularity: 7.399

  

• Name: Peter Whitney

  Character: Deputy Courtney

  Popularity: 3.127

  

• Name: Lee Grant

  Character: Mrs. Leslie Colbert

  Popularity: 6.251

  

• Name: Anthony James

  Character: Ralph

  Popularity: 7.876

  

• Name: William Schallert

  Character: Mayor Schubert

  Popularity: 7.768

  

• Name: Scott Wilson

  Character: Harvey Oberst

  Popularity: 10.246