IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

In 1966, a major motion picture was made in a small community in Southern Illinois.  As it turned out, the movie happened to be considered one of the best one hundred movies ever made. That movie, “In the Heat of the Night”, was made in my home town, Sparta, Illinois.

The movie was a mystery drama based on a 1965 book written by John Ball. It was about a black police detective, Virgil Tibbs, from Philadelphia, PA who became involved in a murder investigation in a small Mississippi town. The movie starred Rod Steiger, Sidney Potier, and Warren Oates.

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