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In the Heat of the Night

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In the Heat of the Night	comment	A 1967 mystery thriller film based on a 1965 novel of the same name by John Ball, directed by Norman Jewison and starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. The supporting cast includes Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Larry Gates, William Schallert, and Scott Wilson in his screen debut.On his way back home after visiting his mother, black Philadelphian Virgil Tibbs (Poitier) finds himself arrested on suspicion of the murder of a prominent factory owner in Sparta, Mississippi, due to the simple circumstance of his being a black man found sitting in a train station with money in his pocket. However, while being questioned by Sparta police chief Bill Gillespie (Steiger), Tibbs reveals that he is in fact a police officer himself, and when Gillespie phones his department for verification and mentions that they're working on a murder, Tibbs is told by his Philly superiors that he should assist the locals in solving the case – partnered with the hot-tempered, casually-racist Gillespie. It's a rocky beginning to the partnership, but the more that Tibbs displays his detective prowess, the more that Gillespie comes to respect – and rely on – him. Working together, chasing several false leads, and fighting against the truly rabid racism of some of the local rednecks, they gradually uncover the truth of the case.Released at the height of American racial tensions during the '60s civil rights era, the film was both a commercial and critical success, receiving seven Academy Award nominations and winning for Best Picture, Actor (Steiger), Editing (Hal Ashby), Adapted Screenplay (Stirling Silliphant), and Sound. Quincy Jones composed the music score. Poitier went on to reprise his role in the sequels They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970) and The Organization (1971), both of which are set in San Francisco and feature more of an urban flavor.Twenty years later the film spawned a TV series with different actors, which has its own page.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_14180452	type	Instantly Proven Wrong
In the Heat of the Night / int_14180452	comment	Instantly Proven Wrong: When Tibbs gets dragged in for interrogation, Gillespie asks him what he was doing at the train station.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_1420a9b8	type	Scenery Censor
In the Heat of the Night / int_1420a9b8	comment	Scenery Censor: The opening sequence has Sgt. Wood, out on his regular nightly patrol, stopping outside the house of a gorgeous, busty, naked young Delores Purdy, who seems to know that he is outside looking. In both a long shot and a medium shot, the window rail is carefully placed to hide the woman's nipples.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_16df995e	type	Salt and Pepper
In the Heat of the Night / int_16df995e	comment	Salt and Pepper: Gillespie and Tibbs.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
In the Heat of the Night / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: When Tibbs is studying the murder scene (where he tells Gillespie that "Sam couldn't have driven two cars"), the distinctive "chi-caa-go, chi-caa-go" call of a California quail can be heard. They don't come east of the Rocky Mountains.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_1ebbebc5	type	Source Music
In the Heat of the Night / int_1ebbebc5	comment	Source Music: Officer Wood listens to music on a portable radio in his patrol car, while Henshaw plays records on the jukebox at Compton's.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_20af79d3	type	Oral Fixation
In the Heat of the Night / int_20af79d3	comment	Oral Fixation: Gillespie chews gum constantly. (Rod Steiger initially didn't like the idea, until he realized that he could use it to show Gillespie emoting.)
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In the Heat of the Night / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
In the Heat of the Night / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: 48 hours, tops.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
In the Heat of the Night / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: Bill Gillespie starts off the film as a casual racist, and the stereotypical "country hick" chief of police in a small Southern town. After meeting Tibbs, a black homicide investigator who is far more competent at police work than he'll ever be, Gillespie grows more respectful to Virgil, especially after the latter proves his prime suspect to be innocent no less than three times (the first of whom was Tibbs himself). By the end, he warmly bids Virgil goodbye at the train station, thanks him for his help, and shakes his hand.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_3763bcf8	type	False Rape Accusation
In the Heat of the Night / int_3763bcf8	comment	False Rape Accusation: Or statutory rape, anyway. Delores Purdy is convinced to accuse officer Sam Wood of impregnating her, to cover for Ralph Henshaw.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_389b0e	type	Title Theme Tune
In the Heat of the Night / int_389b0e	comment	Title Theme Tune: Performed by Ray Charles. It became a minor hit.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_38bb862f	type	Don't You Dare Pity Me!
In the Heat of the Night / int_38bb862f	comment	Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Tibbs and Gillespie seem to be bonding during a quiet moment, but the moment Tibbs says something remotely sympathetic about Gillespie's lack of romance, Gillespie turns cold and mean on a dime.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_3f319f89	type	WronglyAccused
In the Heat of the Night / int_3f319f89	comment	Wrongly Accused: Tibbs is but the first of several people wrongly suspected of the murder, in his case suspected merely because he's a black man found in the town's train station with a large amount of money in his pockets. The second is Harvey Oberst, a guy who was caught with Colbert's wallet. Virgil clears him on the grounds that he is left-handed and the blows to Colbert's head were from the right hand. (Clears him of murder; he remains guilty of theft.) The third is Sam Wood, one of Gillespie's men, who deposited a large amount of cash around the time of the murder, and lied about the road he drove on during his beat. The reason for his lie is, he drove that route to eye Delores Purdy, who is notorious for parading around in the nude, and he didn't want Tibbs to see and/or Gillespie to know about it. He also couldn't have murdered Colbert, because the person who killed Colbert drove the dead man's car. Sam couldn't have driven that car and his own patrol car. While he's never formally charged or accused, Endicott is briefly suspected by Tibbs due to his opposition to Colbert's factory and the discovery of a fern from his greenhouse being found in the dead man's car. (Neither Tibbs nor Gillespie like him so they also don't work to clear him as a suspect, and he's only proven innocent when the real murderer confesses.)
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In the Heat of the Night / int_477bcc9f	type	Greasy Spoon
In the Heat of the Night / int_477bcc9f	comment	Greasy Spoon: Compton's Cafe, which takes a prominent role in the investigation because Sam stops there on the night of the murder and its lone employee committed the murder.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
In the Heat of the Night / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: When Tibbs reveals who he is: Later on, when Gillespie suspects his deputy Sam of the murder, Tibbs delivers a line which shakes the former:
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In the Heat of the Night / int_4e91b042	type	Making Love in All the Wrong Places
In the Heat of the Night / int_4e91b042	comment	Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Delores Purdy tells Gillespie that Sam Wood got her pregnant after taking her to the cemetery for sex, although this turns out to be false testimony. (Justified in-universe; in a hot-as-balls place like Sparta, a cool granite slab in a cemetery is a relief.)
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In the Heat of the Night / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
In the Heat of the Night / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Tibbs both arrives and leaves town by train.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_53d45fa8	type	Back-Alley Doctor
In the Heat of the Night / int_53d45fa8	comment	Back-Alley Doctor: Mama Caleba, the town abortionist.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
In the Heat of the Night / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: It is explained that Sparta has not had a murder in ages, and the small-town tactics they employ do not cover the severity of the case. Gillespie is competent in things like chasing down suspects, but figuring out a murder requires the forensics skills that Tibbs knows by heart. More worryingly, the police department is very quick to jump to conclusions without further investigation. (ex: Sam gets put in jail on both murder and statutory rape charges, one cell over from the previous suspect in that same murder case.)
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In the Heat of the Night / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
In the Heat of the Night / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: When Gillespie finds out Virgil is a police officer, he calls Sam into his office, and calmly asks him if he searched Virgil before bringing him in. When he says he didn't, Gillespie nods towards Virgil's wallet on his desk. When Sam sees the badge, Gillespie yells, "Yeah! OH, YEAH!!", as a chastened Sam backs away.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
In the Heat of the Night / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The novel's Mr. Tibbs was a polite, non-confrontational African-American; the film's Mr. Tibbs, on the other hand, is much more assertive towards the bigots around him.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_607d4ada	type	Run for the Border
In the Heat of the Night / int_607d4ada	comment	Run for the Border: Harvey Oberst, fleeing from the Sparta police, almost makes it across the Mississippi River bridge to Arkansas... except that Gillespie, already parked on the Mississippi end in his car, simply drives up and slowly intercepts him mid-span.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_6563aeb6	type	Shameless Fanservice Girl
In the Heat of the Night / int_6563aeb6	comment	Shameless Fanservice Girl: Delores Purdy parades around her kitchen naked to get her kicks, with the drapes wide open so she's easily visible from the street.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
In the Heat of the Night / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Lloyd Purdy is furious when he believes that Sam Wood had sex with his younger sister Delores (who is below the age of consent of Mississippi, making it statutory rape) and got her pregnant, and comes to the police station to press charges. Later, when Tibbs reveals to him that Ralph Henshaw is the real father of her baby, Purdy is so enraged that he forgets all about lynching Tibbs and turns on Ralph with a shotgun for "turn[ing] my little sister into a field slut", prompting Ralph to shoot him in self-defense.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_6fbe85e6	type	Adaptation Personality Change
In the Heat of the Night / int_6fbe85e6	comment	Adaptation Personality Change: Tibbs is a lot more assertive and temperamental in the movie than he was in the book.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_7141f5cd	type	I Didn't Mean to Kill Him
In the Heat of the Night / int_7141f5cd	comment	I Didn't Mean to Kill Him: Ralph says this word-for-word in his confession scene.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
In the Heat of the Night / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Mr. Endicott's racism stands out even against that of the rest of Sparta, although he's actually not the villain at all. Just a racist jerk. Lloyd Purdy is similarly antagonistic, to the point of organizing a mob to hunt down Tibbs for the "crime" of being present at Delores's interrogation. And Ralph, the actual killer, makes a pointed refusal to serve Virgil midway through the film.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_733ca2f8	type	Noble Bigot with a Badge
In the Heat of the Night / int_733ca2f8	comment	Noble Bigot with a Badge: Gillespie starts out as one. By the end of the movie, he can hardly even be called a bigot.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_744e3311	type	Police Brutality
In the Heat of the Night / int_744e3311	comment	Police Brutality: Gillespie gutpunches one of the thugs who are trying to kill Tibbs, even though they are no longer physically trying to attack either one at this point. A rare example where the audience isn't intended to have much sympathy for the recipient, especially since they're hurling racist slurs and mocking Gillespie for helping a black man.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_7a08e8d1	type	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!
In the Heat of the Night / int_7a08e8d1	comment	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: The trope namer. Virgil Tibbs says this to Gillespie after the latter asks him how he is addressed up North.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
In the Heat of the Night / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Endicott's status as a Politically Incorrect Villain is established before he even appears onscreen — Tibbs and Gillespie see dozens of Black workers picking cotton as they drive up to his plantation house, which has a statue of a lawn jockey next to the walkway. In person, he seems slightly cordial to Tibbs, but begins talking about hothouse orchids as being "like the Negro", showing his paternalistic "white man's burden" attitude and the contempt he held for Colbert's integrated factory plans.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
In the Heat of the Night / int_90c018ac	comment	Justified, in that Gillespie was checking which Philly Tibbs was referring to.note It's apparently also a reference to a then-infamous incident in Philadelphia, MS.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
In the Heat of the Night / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Tibbs urging the butler to pray for Endicott was part of Silliphant's adaptation of the story as subversive Christian allegory, featuring Tibbs as messianic outsider who confronts the racist establishment of Sparta.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_96d2ce42	type	In Vino Veritas
In the Heat of the Night / int_96d2ce42	comment	In Vino Veritas: Gillespie briefly opens up to Virgil about how lonely his life is after a few drinks.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_97ee273	type	Momma's Boy
In the Heat of the Night / int_97ee273	comment	Momma's Boy: The reason Tibbs is in Sparta in the first place is that he's changing trains on his way back from visiting his mother. We never actually meet her or see their relationship directly though, so this is merely implied.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_9838d681	type	DudeMagnet
In the Heat of the Night / int_9838d681	comment	Dude Magnet: Harvey Oberst, Sam Wood, and Ralph Henshaw are all attracted to Delores Purdy, with the latter having even gotten her pregnant, despite the fact that she's only 16. It doesn't help that she parades through her kitchen in the nude every night with her window curtains wide open.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
In the Heat of the Night / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: Bill Gillespie, a casually-racist chief of police in Sparta, Mississippi, who isn't particularly well-loved in his own town, and Virgil Tibbs, a black detective from Pennsylvania who constantly has to deal with the bigotry of the townspeople. They gradually grow to respect each other more as they investigate together.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_99ff79ee	type	Heat Wave
In the Heat of the Night / int_99ff79ee	comment	Heat Wave: It's September, but being in Mississippi, Sparta is still in the grip of one of these.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
In the Heat of the Night / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Tibbs' best-known line qualifies.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_a74ca4fc	type	The Peeping Tom
In the Heat of the Night / int_a74ca4fc	comment	The Peeping Tom: Officer Sam Wood stops on his nightly patrol route to gawk at Delores Purdy, who parades around her kitchen in the nude.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_a91078ea	type	Adaptational Jerkass
In the Heat of the Night / int_a91078ea	comment	Adaptational Jerkass: Endicott, the plantation owner, is a sympathetic character in the novel with no hint of racial prejudice. In the movie he's an unabashed racist, and a few toughs try to gang-beat Tibbs after their confrontation. Also Gillespie, who is more overtly abrasive and sarcastic in the movie.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
In the Heat of the Night / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The overt racism and small-town ignorance of Sparta were meant to be off-putting to audiences even at the time of the film's release.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_aca32000	type	Armor-Piercing Response
In the Heat of the Night / int_aca32000	comment	Armor-Piercing Response: After Tibbs has his slap-exchange with Endicott and becomes convinced he must be the killer, he asks Gillespie to give him more time to prove it, saying "I can pull that fat cat down!" To which Gillespie remarks, "Man, you're just like the rest of us, ain't you?" – thereby pointing out that, in spite of Tibbs's earlier denials, he does harbor (admittedly understandable) prejudice of his own towards at least some people in Sparta. Tibbs has no reply and looks somewhat abashed, and after figuring out that Endicott isn't actually the murderer, admits that he wanted it to be him due to his own personal bias. Gillespie becomes convinced that Sam Wood is the killer based on Tibbs's line of questioning to him, and is frustrated that Tibbs is so adamant that he's innocent. He demands to know why, his voice rising to a shout, and Tibbs raises his own voice to respond that because the killer drove Colbert's body into town with his own car to dump him there, there's no way it could be Officer Wood, who was on patrol at the time and driving his own police car ("Sam couldn't have driven two cars!"). Gillespie instantly realizes he's right and shuts right up, clearly humbled.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
In the Heat of the Night / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: Tibbs, the black big-city police detective, making his way in a racist small-town Mississippi backwater.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
In the Heat of the Night / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: Gillespie, as explained in Reasonable Authority Figure down below.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
In the Heat of the Night / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Gillespie is not too thrilled to have Tibbs second-guessing him during the early part of the investigation, but when Tibbs keeps getting proved correct, Gillespie lets up on the animosity. For his part, Tibbs does not help ease tensions by being both the smartest cop in town and black at a time of fragile race relations.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_c39846a3	type	Pride
In the Heat of the Night / int_c39846a3	comment	Pride: Tibbs is not inclined to help Gillespie solve the murder after how he's been treated, but Gillespie points out he'd never be able to resist showing he's smarter than all these white people.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_c919de1d	type	"London, England" Syndrome
In the Heat of the Night / int_c919de1d	comment	"London, England" Syndrome: When they first meet, Tibbs tells Gillespie he's from Philadelphia. Justified, in that Gillespie was checking which Philly Tibbs was referring to.note It's apparently also a reference to a then-infamous incident in Philadelphia, MS.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
In the Heat of the Night / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The racially-charged environment in Sparta had nothing to do with the murder. It was just a mugging gone wrong. Sam's $600 bank deposit that makes him a suspect. The fern root Tibbs finds in Colbert's car from Endicott's plantation turns out not to be related to the murder at all.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
In the Heat of the Night / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Sam just happens to make a large cash deposit into his bank account that almost exactly matches the amount stolen by the murderer shortly after the crime.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
In the Heat of the Night / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Gillespie, of all people. Despite his racism, he is pissed to find out that his men just arrested a cop and did not even bother to search him or check his identification before bringing him into the station. And in his own way he more or less begs Tibbs for his help, acknowledging that he and his fellow cops cannot solve a murder this complicated on their own. And at Endicott's plantation, when Tibbs slaps Endicott in return for the latter doing it to him first, Gillespie doesn't retaliate (while the mayor says that the chief of police before him would've instantly shot Tibbs and claimed self-defense), but also urges Virgil to leave town despite still wanting his help because he knows this has put Tibbs's life at risk.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_dcb40127	type	The Killer Was Left-Handed
In the Heat of the Night / int_dcb40127	comment	The Killer Was Left-Handed: Inverted. Being left-handed cleared the first suspect.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
In the Heat of the Night / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Ralph, the diner employee, has a number of scenes in which he takes a prominent role in spite of seeming to have nothing to do with the murder. He's the first person we see in the film, shooting a rubber band at a fly. He occasionally taunts Sam by hiding pie and begins one scene by rigging the jukebox to play a song so he can dance by himself. The film justifies all this attention by revealing him to be the murderer.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_defd0c58	type	A Taste of Their Own Medicine
In the Heat of the Night / int_defd0c58	comment	A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Endicott slaps Det. Virgil Tibbs for daring to question him on suspicion of murder. To the shock of white viewers and the delight of black ones, Tibbs instantly slaps the bigot back, an act that was previously unthinkable for African American characters in mainstream Hollywood films.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_e5421161	type	Expy
In the Heat of the Night / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Rod Steiger received directions to base his performance as Sheriff Bill Gillespie on J.W. the Dodge Safety Sheriff, a stereotypical southern sheriff character portrayed by actor Joe Higgins and used as a popular advertising mascot for Dodge automobiles in the 1960s. Steiger took the advice, although he greatly toned down the comedic aspects of the character.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_e73f6217	type	Feet-First Introduction
In the Heat of the Night / int_e73f6217	comment	Feet-First Introduction: Tibbs, disembarking from the train during the opening credits. We don't see his face (or see him again at all) until some ten minutes into the film.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
In the Heat of the Night / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License – Geography: Gillespie pursues Harvey Oberst to the border with Arkansas... which is almost 200 miles away. It's unlikely that Harvey could have fled that far in the short time depicted, whether on foot or hitchhiking.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
In the Heat of the Night / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: When Tibbs is cornered by four racists who plan to lynch him in retaliation for slapping Endicott, Gillespie arrives and runs them off.
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In the Heat of the Night / int_fd497706	type	Accidental Murder
In the Heat of the Night / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: Ralph Henshaw only meant to rob Mr. Colbert, not to kill him.
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IntheHeatoftheNight	sameAs	In the Heat of the Night
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	African-American Media / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	Angry Black Man / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	"Angry Black Man" Stereotype / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	Clueless Deputy / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	Deep South / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	Don't You Dare Pity Me! / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	Feet-First Introduction / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	Greasy Spoon / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	Headbutting Heroes / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	I Didn't Mean to Kill Him / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	I Own This Town / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	Indignant Slap / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	"London, England" Syndrome / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	Misplaced Wildlife / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	Noble Bigot with a Badge / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	Odd Couple / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	Parody Product Placement / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	Run for the Border / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	Shameless Fanservice Girl / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	Stereotype Flip / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	Strange Cop in a Strange Land / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	The Killer Was Left-Handed / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	The Peeping Tom / int_b66e5da0
In the Heat of the Night	hasFeature	They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! / int_b66e5da0

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