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Podcast: FRIDAY FAMILY FILM NIGHT
Episode: Friday Family Film Night: IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT review
Description: As we close out Black History Month, the Mister and Monsters join me in reviewing IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967), currently streaming on HBO Max. The film has a screenplay written by Stirling Silliphant, from a novel by James Ball, and directed by Norman Jewison. The film tells the story of how Virgil Tibbs (the late, great Sidney Poitier) who finds himself being wrongly accused of a murder and then roped into helping the Sparta Police Department, headed up by Chief Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger, in an Academy Award winning role). In a matter of days Tibbs has crac...