Reel Night Out Movie: In the Heat of the Night  (1967)

Best Picture winner about a black police detective from Philadelphia who forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a homicide investigation after a wealthy Chicago businessman is murdered in a small Mississippi town. The film spawned two sequels and a TV-drama. Starring: Rod Steiger, Sidney Poitier, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Quentin Dean. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc., TV-14, 1967, 109 minutes.