Filmmaker Norman Jewison and actress Lee Grant offered a behind-the-scenes look at Sidney Poitier's time working on In the Heat of the Night in separate interviews with PEOPLE after the actor died ...

Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger try to solve the murder of a wealthy entrepreneur in the Academy Award winning, ‘In The Heat Of The Night.’ I seldom go out on a limb by declaring that no other ...

While In the Heat of the Night is set in Mississippi, Jewison shot the bulk of the film in Sparta, Illionis out of concerns over Poitier's safety. "Sidney had to be very careful about where he ...

Why Sidney Poitier's 'In The Heat Of The Night' Almost Never Existed. ... The TCM Classic Film Fest opened Thursday with a 50th anniversary screening of “In the Heat of the Night,” the classic film ...

Sidney Poitier, the noble leading man whose work in such films as No Way Out, Lilies of the Field and In the Heat of the Night paved the way for minority actors and actresses everywhere, has died ...

It's the slap that still reverberates through cinematic history. Fifty-five years ago — only three years after the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act was signed into law — millions of moviegoers watched ...

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May 12, 2025 Web Exclusive By Hays Davis Photography by The Criterion Collection. The fact that the provocative racial/social commentary of In the Heat of the Night was presented in a real-time ...

An excellent Sidney Poitier performance, and an outstanding one by Rod Steiger, overcome some noteworthy flaws to make "In The Heat of the Night" an absorbing contemporary murder drama, set in the ...

Norman Jewison, an Oscar-nominated Canadian director whose decades of work yielded a diverse resume that included Sidney Poitier-led drama “In the Heat of the Night” and 1971’s “Fiddler on ...

The Oscar-winning actress reflects on the classic 1967 thriller on its 55th anniversary, and condemns the architect of the blacklist, Joseph McCarthy. "He was a terrible man." ...