# Directors: Norman Jewison
# Rating: UNRATED
# Studio: United Artists
# DVD Release Date: January 15, 2008
# Run Time: 109 minutes

# Actors: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Timothy Scott

They got a murder on their hands . . . they don’t know what to do with it.
While traveling in the Deep South, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in the murder investigationof a prominent businessman when he is first accused of the crimeand then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, however, especially when his efforts are constantly thwarted by the bigoted town sheriff (Steiger). But neither man can solve this case alone. Putting aside their differences and prejudices, they join forces in a desperate race against time to discover the shocking truth.

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