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They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

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They Call Me Mister Tibbs!	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (the opening title card actually says They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!) is a 1970 film directed by Gordon Douglas.It is a sequel to 1967 film In the Heat of the Night. Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), last seen having to catch a murderer while dealing with Mississippi racists in that film, is back home in San Francisco. In the opening scene, a prostitute named Joy Sturges is bludgeoned to death in her apartment. The prime suspect, based on an anonymous tip, is Rev. Logan Sharpe (Martin Landau), a crusading left-wing minister who is in the final days of a campaign to pass a controversial ballot proposition which will allow for "home rule" in San Francisco's various ethnic enclaves.Virgil has a hard time believing this, both because of what an upstanding man Logan is (when he's not leading a social justice crusade, he's coaching youth football in the inner city), and the fact that they have been good friends for 18 years. Suspicion eventually falls on Woody Garfield (Ed Asner, wearing a toupee), a sleazy businessman who may have been Joy's pimp, and Rice Weedon, the even sleazier owner of Joy's building, who happens to be part of a drug-smuggling ring.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })A subplot involves Virgil's home life. His marriage is solid but his wife Valerie wishes he'd spend more time at home. Meanwhile, his pre-teen son Andy is becoming quite the hellraiser, hitting his little sister and smoking cigarettes at home.Quincy Jones composed the score (as he did for In the Heat of the Night). This film was followed two years later by The Organization, the third and last film in which Poitier played Virgil Tibbs.Does not actually feature the trope They Call Me Mister Tibbs!. Both trope and movie are named after a famous line from In the Heat of the Night.
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Tibbs notices that the usually humble Logan is wearing a necklace. It's his, but it turns out that Joy Sturges used to wear it. This link is how Tibbs confirms that his old friend Logan actually is the killer.
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: It turns out that Logan actually was having an affair with Joy Sturges, and he really did kill her. With the election happening the very next day, Logan begs his old friend Virgil Tibbs to delay his arrest 24 hours. Tibbs refuses. Moments later, after they've left the church on their way to the police station, Logan kills himself by stepping out in front of a truck.
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_71abd546	comment	Excited Show Title!: They Call Me Mister Tibbs!, or even They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!.
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_73a7d1b3	comment	Radish Cure: Virgil deals with catching Andy smoking cigarettes by making him drink liquor and smoke a cigar. Andy barfs.
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_82fc5bdf	comment	Bratty Half-Pint: Andy is a little hellion, never cleaning his room, scattering his sister's toys everywhere and refusing to pick them up, hitting his little sister, and smoking cigarettes with his buddy despite being maybe 10 years old.
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_8ee710e7	type	Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_8ee710e7	comment	Better Manhandle the Murder Weapon: Mealie the dimwitted janitor comes into Joy's apartment, sees her dead on the floor, sees a bloody paperweight on the floor. He picks up the paperweight, and thus becomes a murder suspect.
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_ad7a381d	type	P.O.V. Cam
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_ad7a381d	comment	P.O.V. Cam: Used in the opening scene in which a naked Joy is giving someone a "The Reason You Suck" Speech. The unseen POV character promptly strangles her before bashing her skull in with a paperweight.
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_bf1edb7e	type	Comforting Comforter
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_bf1edb7e	comment	Comforting Comforter: Virgil shows he's a loving father by tucking his little daughter Ginger into bed.
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error In In the Heat of the Night Tibbs says he is unmarried. Three years later he's got a wife and two school-age children. Also, he lives in San Francisco, and he has for a while—he's known Logan for 18 years and his supervisor at the SFPD mentions that he's been with them for 12 years. In In the Heat of the Night he says he's from Philadelphia.
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_d8d22bb0	type	Dutch Angle
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_d8d22bb0	comment	Dutch Angle: The scene where Tibbs looks into a car and finds a dead Weedon is shot from an extreme tilted angle, with a camera that apparently was put in the passenger footwell.
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_e2abcbfd	type	Turbulent Priest
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_e2abcbfd	comment	Turbulent Priest: A low-key version. Logan Sharpe is a left-wing activist priest who, as the film opens, is in the final days of a drive to pass Proposition 4, a controversial proposal which will give "home rule" to San Francisco's various neighborhoods.
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_e75d1aee	type	Friendly Local Chinatown
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_e75d1aee	comment	Friendly Local Chinatown: Tibbs chases Weedon through Chinatown. It's mostly for the exotic backgrounds.
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They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: From a paperweight being swung down onto a prostitute's skull, to garbage being thrown in a dumpster.
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