Alicia Malone Intro - In The Heat Of The Night (1967)

In The Heat Of The Night - (Original Trailer)

A black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation In The Heat Of The Night (1967).

In The Heat Of The Night (1967) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Pay For The Call

Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), hauled in as a murder suspect, reveals his identity to Mississippi Sheriff Gillespie (Rod Steiger), who summons deputy Wood (Warren Oates), early in Norman Jewison's In The Heat Of The Night, 1967.

In The Heat Of The Night (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Like The Negro

Sheriff Gillespie (Rod Steiger) and detective Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) on their murder investigation, visit cotton farmer Endicott (Larry Gates), who exhibits blinding racism, a famous scene from Norman Jewison's In The Heat Of The Night, 1967.

In The Heat Of The Night (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Bow Legged Polly

People forget that Warren Oates as deputy Wood carries the first several sequences, cruising the fictional town of Sparta, Mississippi, to an original tune on the radio, by Quincy Jones and Alan and Marilyn Bergman, sung by Glen Campbell, opening In The Heat Of The Night, 1967.

In The Heat Of The Night (1967) -- (Movie Clip) What Does That Make Him?

Visiting Philadelphia detective Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) pressed into service, has just finished speaking with the murder victim's widow (Lee Grant), and is skeptical when Mississippi sheriff Gillespie (Rod Steiger) et al bring in suspect Harvey (Scott Clark), in In The Heat Of The Night, 1967.