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5.9/10   995 votes
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Director:
Gordon Douglas
Writers:
Alan Trustman (screenplay) &
James R. Webb (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
10 July 1970 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Mystery more
Tagline:
The last time Virgil Tibbs had a day like this was "In The Heat Of The Night"
Plot:
San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs is called in to investigate when a liberal street preacher... more | full synopsis
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User Comments:
Not always better the second time around. more (12 total)

Cast

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Sidney Poitier ... Virgil Tibbs

Martin Landau ... Logan Sharpe
Barbara McNair ... Valerie Tibbs
Anthony Zerbe ... Rice Weedon

Edward Asner ... Woody Garfield
Jeff Corey ... Captain Marden
Norma Crane ... Marge Garfield
Juano Hernandez ... Mealie Williamson

David Sheiner ... Lieutenant Kenner
Beverly Todd ... Puff
Ted Gehring ... Sergeant Deutsch
Linda Towne ... Joy Sturges
Garry Walberg ... Medical Examiner
George Spell ... Andy Tibbs
Wanda Spell ... Ginger Tibbs
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for a violent scene with nudity.
Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parents
Runtime:
108 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
Certification:
Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | West Germany:16 (nf) | USA:GP (original rating) | USA:R (re-rating) (1996) | Finland:K-16 | Norway:16
Filming Locations:
San Francisco, California, USA
Company:
Mirisch Corporation, The more

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Trivia:
One of the handful of major Hollywood releases to have an entire word in upper case in the title. more
Quotes:
[talking about Rice Weedon]
Puff: You killed him.
Virgil Tibbs: Look, let's get the record straight. He started that shoot out.
Puff: Well, you bastard, you killed the wrong man he didn't do it!
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Featured in The Untitled Star Wars Mockumentary (2003) more

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3 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
Not always better the second time around., 22 July 2007
6/10
Author: lastliberal from Florida

Love may be better the second time around, but movies usually aren't. There are exceptions, but this isn't one of them. Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is back home and out of that hellhole in Mississippi, but the excitement of In the Heat of the Night is missing.

He is doing his thing as a detective; trying to solve a murder where the chief suspect is his preacher friend Logan Sharpe (Martin Landau). The problem is that Gordon Douglas is no Norman Jewison and his direction does not have any magic. The acting is good, but the movie just seems to plod along, switching between Tibbs' home problems (And, I have to mention, his child abuse regarding his son.) and the murder. The fast pace of Jewison's effort is sadly missing.

It's a fair murder mystery, but the pace makes it one to skip.

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