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In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.
John Alvin
- Bearded Reporter at Logan Sharpe HQ
- (uncredited)
Ted Christy
- Pool Hall Patron
- (uncredited)
Vic Christy
- Pool Hall Patron
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaNotable for being one of the few movies in which Edward Asner wears a full toupee for his part.
- GoofsDetective Tibbs is presented as having entirely different biography about details of his life and career than he did in previous film In the Heat of the Night (1967).
- Quotes
Virgil Tibbs: A case is never solved until a judge says it is.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Green Fog (2017)
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Not always better the second time around.
Love may be better the second time around, but movies usually aren't. There are exceptions, but this isn't one of them. Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is back home and out of that hellhole in Mississippi, but the excitement of In the Heat of the Night is missing.
He is doing his thing as a detective; trying to solve a murder where the chief suspect is his preacher friend Logan Sharpe (Martin Landau). The problem is that Gordon Douglas is no Norman Jewison and his direction does not have any magic. The acting is good, but the movie just seems to plod along, switching between Tibbs' home problems (And, I have to mention, his child abuse regarding his son.) and the murder. The fast pace of Jewison's effort is sadly missing.
It's a fair murder mystery, but the pace makes it one to skip.
He is doing his thing as a detective; trying to solve a murder where the chief suspect is his preacher friend Logan Sharpe (Martin Landau). The problem is that Gordon Douglas is no Norman Jewison and his direction does not have any magic. The acting is good, but the movie just seems to plod along, switching between Tibbs' home problems (And, I have to mention, his child abuse regarding his son.) and the murder. The fast pace of Jewison's effort is sadly missing.
It's a fair murder mystery, but the pace makes it one to skip.
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- lastliberal
- Jul 21, 2007
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $5,123,000
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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