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Categories: Film

Keywords: History | Cinema


United States | Concept: Silliphant, Stirling (novel by: John Ball) | Director: Jewison, Norman | Music: Jones, Quincy | Participants: Poitier, Sidney; Steiger, Rod; Oates, Warren; Grant, Lee u.a.
 

 Norman Jewison
«In the Heat of the Night»

An African American detective (Sidney Poitier) is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.
The film, with a non-white actor in a lead acting role, was so controversial that it couldn't be filmed in the Deep South, so the sets were recreated in various small towns in two states: Sparta, Freeburg, and Belleville, Illinois, and Dyersburg, Tennessee.
Surprisingly, the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and received five Oscars.