Sidney Poitier in "In the Heat of the Night"

This week, Morgan and Gavia celebrate the life and work of the late Sidney Poitier by diving into his greatest film, Norman Jewison's Academy Award-winning In the Heat of the Night. Poitier stars as a Black, northern detective who is waylaid in a small southern town by a homicide investigation in which he becomes entangled; Rod Steiger co-stars as the town's racist white sheriff. Topics include the film's complicated production history and Academy Awards success, its place in Poitier's career, Steiger's Method performance, and more.

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Links

Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, Mark Harris at Bookshop.org

“How we made In the Heat of the Night,” Phil Hoad, The Guardian