Director
Norman JewisonStarring actors
Sidney Poitier
Rod Steiger
Warren Oates
Peter Whitney
Lee Grant
Anthony James
William Schallert
Scott Wilson
Larry Gates
James PattersonDescription
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...