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In the heat of the night / The Mirisch Corporation presents the Norman Jewison/Walter Mirisch production ; screenplay by Stirling Silliphant ; produced by Walter Mirisch ; directed by Norman Jewison.
Van Pelt - Video Collection (ask at Circulation Desk) DVD 031 731 DVD + insert
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 959.
- The Criterion collection ; 959
- Standardized Title:
- In the heat of the night (Motion picture)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ball, John Dudley, 1911-1988--Film adaptations.
- Ball, John Dudley.
- Ball, John Dudley, 1911-1988.
- African American detectives--Drama.
- African American detectives.
- Homicide investigation--Mississippi--Sparta--Drama.
- Homicide investigation.
- Racism--Mississippi--Sparta--Drama.
- Racism.
- Race relations.
- Mississippi--Race relations--Drama.
- Mississippi.
- Greece--Sparta.
- Genre:
- Crime films.
- Detective and mystery films.
- Drama.
- Film adaptations.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm).
- 4 3/4 in.
- stamping
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2019]
- Language Note:
- Open-captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
- System Details:
- DVD; NTSC; region 1; 16:9 wide screen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby digital monaural.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- widescreen (1.85:1)
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- 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.
- Participant:
- Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Larry Gates, James Patterson.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Haskell Wexler; editor, Hal Ashby; music, Quincy Jones.
- Notes:
- Title and credits from screen.
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 1967.
- Based on In the heat of the night / by John Ball.
- Wide screen (1.85:1 aspect ratio).
- New 4K digital restoration.
- Special features: 2008 audio commentary with Norman Jewison, Haskell Wexler, Rod Steiger and Lee Grant; New interviews with director Norman Jewison and actor Lee Grant; Segment from a 2006 American Film Institute interview with actor Sidney Poitier; New 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; on insert, An essay by critic K. Austin Collins (on insert).
- ISBN:
- 9781681435404
- 1681435403
- OCLC:
- 1077711604
- Publisher Number:
- 715515225212
- CC2983D Criterion Collection
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