In the Heat of the Night

by Sidney Poitier Warren Oates, Lee Grant, Rod Stieger

$250 · Offered by Royal Books

N.p. N.p., Circa 1967. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1967 film, showing Warren Oates on the set.Based on John Ball's 1965 novel. An African-American police detective from Philadelphia is recruited to help solve a murder in a small, bigoted Mississippi town. The film dealt skillfully with the topic of race relations in the South during the Civil Rights movement, and included a controversial scene in which a white actor, Larry Gates, slaps

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