#959: JEWISON, Norman: In The Heat Of The Night (1967)
JEWISON, Norman (United States)
In The Heat Of The Night [1967]
Spine #959
Blu-ray
The Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by critic K. Austin Collins.
Commentary
From 2008 featuring Jewison, actors Grant and Steiger, and DP Haskell Wexler.
Interviews
With director Jewison and actor Grant.
Segment
From a 2006 American Film Institute interview with actor Poitier.
Interview
With Aram Goudsouzian, author of Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon.
Turning Up the Heat: Movie-Making in the ‘60s
A 2008 program about the production of the film and its legacy, featuring Jewison, Wexler, producer Walter Mirisch, and filmmakers John Singleton and Reginald Hudlin.
Quincy Jones: Breaking New Sound
A 2008 program about Jones’s innovative soundtrack, including the title song sung by Ray Charles, featuring interviews with Jones, lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and musician Herbie Hancock.
Trailer
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In The Heat Of The Night [1967]
Spine #959
Blu-ray
Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town. Director Norman Jewison splices incisive social commentary into this thrilling police procedural with the help of Haskell Wexler's vivid cinematography, Quincy Jones's eclectic score, and two indelible lead performances — a career-defining display of seething indignation and moral authority from Poitier and an Oscar-winning master class in Method acting from Steiger. Winner of five Academy Awards, including for best picture, In the Heat of the Night is one of themost enduring Hollywood films of the civil rights era.
110 minutes
Color
Monaural
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Monaural
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2019
Director/Writers
Based on the novel by John Ball.
Screenplay by Stirling Silliphant.
Norman Jewison was 41 when he directed In the Heat of the Night.
Other Jewison films in the Collection:
#1056: Moonstruck (1987)
The Film
Other Jewison films in the Collection:
#1056: Moonstruck (1987)
The Film
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Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twelve-page wraparound featuring an essay by critic K. Austin Collins.
Commentary
From 2008 featuring Jewison, actors Grant and Steiger, and DP Haskell Wexler.
Interviews
With director Jewison and actor Grant.
Segment
From a 2006 American Film Institute interview with actor Poitier.
Interview
With Aram Goudsouzian, author of Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon.
Turning Up the Heat: Movie-Making in the ‘60s
A 2008 program about the production of the film and its legacy, featuring Jewison, Wexler, producer Walter Mirisch, and filmmakers John Singleton and Reginald Hudlin.
Quincy Jones: Breaking New Sound
A 2008 program about Jones’s innovative soundtrack, including the title song sung by Ray Charles, featuring interviews with Jones, lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and musician Herbie Hancock.
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
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