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Synopsis

A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.

Cast

  • Sidney Poitier
  • Rod Steiger
  • Warren Oates
  • Lee Grant
  • Larry Gates
  • James Patterson
  • William Schallert
  • Beah Richards
  • Peter Whitney
  • Kermit Murdock

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Metacritic

80
Jan 23, 2014

Though the film portrays the racism of the South as institutional and inescapable, it’s a little too eager to offer glimmers of hope with increasing frequency as the film nears its end and Tibbs and Gillespie come to understand each other better.

Metacritic review by Keith Phipps
Keith Phipps
The Dissolve
100

Yes, it’s a thriller with a murder mystery at the heart of it. But “whodunnit” is immaterial to the film’s thrills, and the one thing I seem to forget every time I watch it anew.

Metacritic review by Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Movie Nation
80

The sheer tactlessness of its racial confrontation has a forthright quality and a not entirely intentional documentary realism, especially in the scenes shot on location in Sparta, Illinois (standing in for a fictional Mississippi town).

Metacritic review by Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian