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“They got a murder on their hands. They don’t know what to do with it.”
In the Heat of the Night (1967) zeroes in on African-American detective Virgil Tibbs, who is wrongly arrested for murder in the small town of Sparta, Mississippi. As he clears his name and joins forces with the town's racist police chief, Bill Gillespie, they traverse the town's social strata, encountering both hostility and unexpected alliances. Tibbs' presence challenges the town's entrenched prejudices, marking a tense and pivotal period in the lives of its inhabitants.
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