The best actors don't act they just act naturally. Imagine how many people are in that room when filming and a good actor have to ignore everyone and everything imagine the amount of control
@@dan2007kohn Beah did what she could with that role but the girl who played Sidney Poitier's bride was SUCH a ditz she ruined the whole film. I kept wondering why this distinguished U.N. official PHD etc. etc. would pair up with this ditz (she was Katherine Hepburn's niece).
Beah Richards, great actor, starred alongside Sydney Poitier in both this film and Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, which were released within a year of each other.
I love the authenticity of this scene, car engines, flies buzzing, dogs barking, crickets rubbing their legs...🦗🦗🦗 A single light bulb 💡 lighting the store... You can feel that Southern heat... 🔥🥵 🌆 May Sir Sidney Poitier and Miss Beah Richards continue to RestInPeace... 💔🕊️😘💋❤️❤️❤️👏🏽👏🏽
+marantz7 Can we agree on of the best I mean the the 1960's gave us "The Misfits", "The Apartment", "Goldfinger", "Pshyco", "Buillit", "Thomas Crown Affair", as well as this film and Poitier two classics released the same year "To Sir With Love" and "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner"?
I like Packy. He is willing to wait because he knows Tibbs is in a precarious situation. His friend, the leftie told him he's a good man. Tibbs told him to leave out of a mutual care.
My favorite part of this scene is when he convinces Purdy to look in his sisters purse. Purdy is a repugnant racist but he’s not dumb enough to not see the logic in what Tibb’s is saying. When Tibbs tells Purdy that Ralph made a fool out of him it was the icing on the cake, he used Purdy’s own ego to save himself and get Ralph.
Interesting, but I think that in a real situation, just as Purdy arrived there, he would be greedy to ask to his sister what she was doing too late at night away from home together with a strange. It would be a total mess.
Everyone has standards. All of Purdy's rage was over his sister getting pregnant and others knowing about it, especially in such a small community. He was furious about Virgil hearing Deloris' account more than anything, and Virgil directing Purdy's attention to Ralph was sharp, too. Ralph was literally holding the smoking gun, right in front of a posse who all paused at the same time to think with Purdy. Racism is despicable, but rape is something else entirely and all the rednecks in this scene agreed on that. And if Ralph knocked-up one girl under-age, what was his case for not doing the same to somebody else?
Poet comic: They wanted to use Sam the Sham's " little red riding hood" but he wanted too much money. So Quincy wrote " fowl owl on the prowl" . Same tempo cause they filmed the scene already. Norah Jones did a remake in the 2000s .
Neat thing is that the store owner is the same lady that played his mother on "Guess Who's coming to Dinner" and of course he called her "Mama" in that movie also. Fine, high quality actors in excellent movies :)
Bea Richards is such a great actress. She plays the abortionist in this scene but also appeared as Sidney Poitier's mother in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" released the same year as "In the Heat of the Night". She has such brilliant range as an actress, as does Rod Steiger as an actor. I mean he went from a Russian count in "Doctor Zhivago" just two years before playing the small town Southern sheriff in this film.
Great is a term that is thrown around nowadays, but she truly was. "People round here call me Mama Caleba." Watching this scene between to greats is incredible.
I had to come back and watch this. Growing up in the Deep South, I can say that that store is spot on for small rural establishments. Even the smell came back to me.
Donkey Slayer Rural Ill. as Sidney wanted no part of the south at such a dangerous time , with the exception of the brief scene of the two stars driving through a cotton field which was filmed in Tenn.
Mama's laugh at 3:12 is delicious! " That cracker?!? " Perfect! The hundred dollars for Mama's abortion would be around $840. today. About two weeks salary back then.
@@marantz7783 Sad truth for pro- life believers, but the busiest and most enthusiastic abortionist of all eternity is none other than God itself who, as the data shows, decides daily that not all human life is precious or worthy of his protection. In the year 2000, 19 million Godly abortions, aka “miscarriages”, took place worldwide. About 80% of miscarriages occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy (the first trimester). The underlying cause in about half of cases involves chromosomal abnormalities which usually occur when there is an error in cell division-God is not inerrant after all. These Godly abortions approximate to one in every 10 pregnancies. In developing countries like Latin America and the Caribbean alone, it is estimated that 3.7 million Godly abortions take place each year. Each year also finds Africa *(The Most Religious Part Of World),* with the highest ratio- 4.2 million Godly abortions are estimated to take place; and that ratio is 22 per 1,000 women. This estimates to one Godly abortion per seven live births. *Worse yet, it is unknown just how many fertilized eggs never even attach to the wall and are flushed out of a woman’s body like some kind of toxic waste.* Godly abortions are also common among *parous* (having given birth one or more times.) women; 43% of parous women report having experienced one or more first trimester Godly abortions, rising to 81% among women with 11 or more living children. One in every 17 parous women has had three or more Godly abortions. *A slim 60% chance of success is no magical miraculous moment that life begins.* Clearly it is undeniable; God does not always vote for life as miscarriage and stillbirth have made mourners of as many women as elective abortion has, and so *He must also condone earthly abortions too* since He consistently *fails* to prevent any of them from happening.
I like how after an entire movie of people reacting to Virgil with microaggressions, her entire body language upon meeting him is "Oh damn, look at *this* tall drink of water!"
Anthony James. Monster character actor. He is retired from acting. Does occasional voice-over work. He Paints and has had his work shown in galleries in NY and SF. I think he has had a book of his artwork published.
There is a mobile home there now. The grocery store was owned by Joe DeAngelo and had closed before the movie was made. Even so, they had to give it a more run down appearance for the movie. You can read about this in "Searching for Sparta" available on lulu.com.
Seeing all this shooting going on... When Tibbs picked up the gun it was ohhh shit look out he got a gun . They seemed more afraid a black man had a gun. Even though he was an officer I didn't see him carry a gun in this movie. I would say the only weapon he had was his Brain. Big Ups Sid
Anthony James never got the proper credit for his excellent work in this movie. He was a great supporting actor. Always typecast due to his strong facial features
In one of the newspaper articles written during the filming of the movie, it was erroneously reported that Beah Richards was playing the role Sidney Poitier's mother. I guess the reporter made an assumption based on Richards' character being named Mama Caleba.
Can anyone tell me where Mama's accent is from? I've seen this film so many times but it's wonderful seeing each scene in isolation. Thanks for posting.
All right! Now that you've got me addicked to this movie i haven't seen in 40 years can you please download Segment #6 ? Lol. I'm ready for more of Virgil Thibbs. Thanks!
I find it strange that Virgil Tibbs as a police officer (and a high ranking one at that) does not carry a pistol, if not for anything else, to defend himself if he is attacked like it happens twice in the plot.
A brilliant movie with top acting showing the Difference between the 2 races towards each other and at the end getting together but there's one problem.... the abortionist is aghast at the murder when Sydney mentions it.Something she practices.
One of my all time favorites...just outstanding on so many levels.
Sidney Poitier was one of the best actors ever.
Amen
Rod Steiger won the Academy Award, but Sidney Poitier deserved a best actor nomination.
@@MichaelMcKenzeyrod deserved the Oscar. Sidney already had one.
The best actors don't act they just act naturally. Imagine how many people are in that room when filming and a good actor have to ignore everyone and everything imagine the amount of control
Beah Richards was ONE HELL of an actress. The sizzle she had going with Poitier is my favorite moment of the movie.
The funny thing is in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner the same year she played his mother.
@@dan2007kohn Beah did what she could with that role but the girl who played Sidney Poitier's bride was SUCH a ditz she ruined the whole film. I kept wondering why this distinguished U.N. official PHD etc. etc. would pair up with this ditz (she was Katherine Hepburn's niece).
I always thought she had a sweet face and voice.
@@abdul7591 True, but she was an airhead.
Using the same adjective (ditz) in two consecutive sentences shows that you have but a very feeble grasp of the English language.
Beah Richards, great actor, starred alongside Sydney Poitier in both this film and Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, which were released within a year of each other.
I love the authenticity of this scene, car engines, flies buzzing, dogs barking, crickets rubbing their legs...🦗🦗🦗
A single light bulb 💡 lighting the store...
You can feel that Southern heat... 🔥🥵 🌆
May Sir Sidney Poitier and Miss Beah Richards continue to RestInPeace... 💔🕊️😘💋❤️❤️❤️👏🏽👏🏽
I grew up in Louisiana in the late 60s, and I had the same flashbacks!
Yep. I grew up in rural South Carolina and I used to go in stores like this. I worked on a farm too, talk about hot as H in the summer!
Best movie of the entire 60's-Poiter and Steiger were brilliant
+marantz7 Can we agree on of the best I mean the the 1960's gave us "The Misfits", "The Apartment", "Goldfinger", "Pshyco", "Buillit", "Thomas Crown Affair", as well as this film and Poitier two classics released the same year "To Sir With Love" and "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner"?
@@edeck889 Bonnie and Clyde; The Graduate
Got to love how Virgil uses his quick thinking to turn the gang against one another.
Why cognoscente call him "'MISTER' Tibbs."
@@JudgeJulieLit "You turned my little sistah...into a field slut?"
Detective Strategy 101: Game Theory - How to turn criminals against each other.
He was a seasoned cop from Philly 👍🏾
In that town Ralph was a mastermind. He was the Foul Owl on the Prowl.
I love this movie. I watch it every time Turner Classic shows it.
I watch these clips daily... repeat the lines all the time to my workmates...
This film and Hombre with Paul Newman.
Watched this a million times and still get the same chills when he goes to Mama’s spot
I like Packy. He is willing to wait because he knows Tibbs is in a precarious situation. His friend, the leftie told him he's a good man. Tibbs told him to leave out of a mutual care.
This is one movie that doesnt need to be remade.
It can't and it shouldn't, but you know some idiot's gonna try.
Don't be surprised
@@Locktwiste72 liberals will
@@christopherthrawn1333 Liberals? What the fuck are you talking about? The politics D-bag room is down the hall, clown. You need to go there.
2199 ...amen, it’s terrible enough as-is
My favorite part of this scene is when he convinces Purdy to look in his sisters purse. Purdy is a repugnant racist but he’s not dumb enough to not see the logic in what Tibb’s is saying. When Tibbs tells Purdy that Ralph made a fool out of him it was the icing on the cake, he used Purdy’s own ego to save himself and get Ralph.
Interesting, but I think that in a real situation, just as Purdy arrived there, he would be greedy to ask to his sister what she was doing too late at night away from home together with a strange. It would be a total mess.
@@albertdumont4977 True but that would be after he beat Virgil to death and even then she still might have been able to feed him some bs excuse.
Everyone has standards. All of Purdy's rage was over his sister getting pregnant and others knowing about it, especially in such a small community. He was furious about Virgil hearing Deloris' account more than anything, and Virgil directing Purdy's attention to Ralph was sharp, too. Ralph was literally holding the smoking gun, right in front of a posse who all paused at the same time to think with Purdy.
Racism is despicable, but rape is something else entirely and all the rednecks in this scene agreed on that. And if Ralph knocked-up one girl under-age, what was his case for not doing the same to somebody else?
Every single actor is so damned good
1968 was a force of good movies and their performances. At least Jewison was nominated for best director
In case, you might not know, The film score was composed, arranged and conducted by Quincy Jones.
And THAT even includes the juke box and radio songs including that incredibly creepy 'Owl on the Prowl' which they wrote just for the movie!
Thanks for the info 👍🏾
And Ray Charles sang the theme song
Poet comic: They wanted to use Sam the Sham's " little red riding hood" but he wanted too much money. So Quincy wrote " fowl owl on the prowl" . Same tempo cause they filmed the scene already. Norah Jones did a remake in the 2000s .
I watch this scene just for Poitier's slide out the door chasing after Delores. Straight gangsta, lol!!!!
XD
Cartoon-like!
Yeah, oh yeah.
Reminds me ofKramer coming into Jerry’s apartment.
@@kaischmidt8030 Perhaps this scene is where Kramer got it.
Striking action.
Neat thing is that the store owner is the same lady that played his mother on "Guess Who's coming to Dinner" and of course he called her "Mama" in that movie also. Fine, high quality actors in excellent movies :)
Beah Richards was in "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner"?
You both are correct..an Isabel Sanford played the maid.
@@315majestic Yeah...we don't look alike. Beah Richards played the mother. Isabel Sanford was the maid.
She also played Dr Benton's mother in ER.
🙂 that is correct!
".....You talk crazy! (Are) You gin drunk?....." I use those lines all the time! LOL 😆
"You turned my little sistah...into a field slut?"
That Are you gin drunk is an amazing line.
I knew a brother from the deep South when we in Vietnam with the Marines. He used to say, "He was pissy ass drunk."
Bea Richards is such a great actress. She plays the abortionist in this scene but also appeared as Sidney Poitier's mother in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" released the same year as "In the Heat of the Night". She has such brilliant range as an actress, as does Rod Steiger as an actor. I mean he went from a Russian count in "Doctor Zhivago" just two years before playing the small town Southern sheriff in this film.
I think she's also in the Miracle Worker with Patty Duke.
she was. @@dinellewatson1507
She was a drug rehab counselor in the Drugstore Cowboy also.
She also appeared on Sanford and Son a couple of times.
Great is a term that is thrown around nowadays, but she truly was. "People round here call me Mama Caleba." Watching this scene between to greats is incredible.
Rest in Peace Mr. Poitier.
You get so wrapped up in watching Poitier and Steiger you miss just how brilliant the supporting cast are. Bea Richards is pitch perfect here.
I had to come back and watch this. Growing up in the Deep South, I can say that that store is spot on for small rural establishments. Even the smell came back to me.
i grew up in Denmark..and i love this movie
that smell......it never leaves you.
Sure, where do you this was filmed? It wasn't Hollywood.
Donkey Slayer Rural Ill. as Sidney wanted no part of the south at such a dangerous time , with the exception of the brief scene of the two stars driving through a cotton field which was filmed in Tenn.
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Damn some movies are just too good.
..you think..you should try blk and white..
..not ready for auteur yet..
..there's still hope!!
Thanks. She appeared on many tv shows and movies often playing mother type roles. Saddening that she's passed away.
In my book, one of the 20 best movies of all time....if not in yours, no problem...but if it is not in your top 100, well, something wrong with that!
One of the five best of all time. It is that good.
It’s my top. Number one.
Your opinion of my opinion...😮
This is one of my favorite movies ever! Sidney Poitier kicks ass in this!
Mama's laugh at 3:12 is delicious! " That cracker?!? " Perfect! The hundred dollars for Mama's abortion would be around $840. today. About two weeks salary back then.
still murder-----aren't you glad your folks didn't abort you!
@@marantz7783 Sad truth for pro- life believers, but the busiest and most enthusiastic abortionist of all eternity is none other than God itself who, as the data shows, decides daily that not all human life is precious or worthy of his protection. In the year 2000, 19 million Godly abortions, aka “miscarriages”, took place worldwide. About 80% of miscarriages occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy (the first trimester). The underlying cause in about half of cases involves chromosomal abnormalities which usually occur when there is an error in cell division-God is not inerrant after all. These Godly abortions approximate to one in every 10 pregnancies. In developing countries like Latin America and the Caribbean alone, it is estimated that 3.7 million Godly abortions take place each year. Each year also finds Africa *(The Most Religious Part Of World),* with the highest ratio- 4.2 million Godly abortions are estimated to take place; and that ratio is 22 per 1,000 women. This estimates to one Godly abortion per seven live births. *Worse yet, it is unknown just how many fertilized eggs never even attach to the wall and are flushed out of a woman’s body like some kind of toxic waste.*
Godly abortions are also common among *parous* (having given birth one or more times.) women; 43% of parous women report having experienced one or more first trimester Godly abortions, rising to 81% among women with 11 or more living children. One in every 17 parous women has had three or more Godly abortions. *A slim 60% chance of success is no magical miraculous moment that life begins.*
Clearly it is undeniable; God does not always vote for life as miscarriage and stillbirth have made mourners of as many women as elective abortion has, and so *He must also condone earthly abortions too* since He consistently *fails* to prevent any of them from happening.
I like how after an entire movie of people reacting to Virgil with microaggressions, her entire body language upon meeting him is "Oh damn, look at *this* tall drink of water!"
The great ones make it look so easy.
damn he's limber on the feet!!! slide baby slide!!!
Gee but I love Packy's truck. Wish I had it.
the worst kinda time you can do is colored time 😯
Yea and how much time have you done bitch?
Still is!
RC BC
Lmxn
JJ
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The guy with the gun was the saloon owner in "Unforgiven". Cool.
Sure was...Good eye Noun boy
Anthony James. Monster character actor. He is retired from acting. Does occasional voice-over work. He Paints and has had his work shown in galleries in NY and SF. I think he has had a book of his artwork published.
Also in High Plains Drifter.
Yea he ran Greeley's saloon. First one Clint shot when he came in.He shot an unarmed man.Should have armed himself.
Only here to see who recognized Skinny.
The filming is exquisite. Ponyboy and Robert Frost can show up anytime.
The guy that drove Tibbs to Mama's place is from the Walking Dead.
OLD MAMA ALSI PLAYED ON SANFORD AND SON👍🏾I BELIEVE HER NAME WAS EThel👍🏾😊⚘
That wasn't this actress
Yes it is,Her name is Beah Richards,her character is Aunt Ethel,one of Esther's (Lawanda Page) sister's.😊👍🏾👍🏾
@@beverlywaits7663 Thank you
Great actors.
I love his slide lol!
Rest in Peace Anthony James.
Had guest spots in many TV series. Always played a creep!
I was in Sparta in 2007, Bellamys 'grocery building was gone. At 5:03 you can see the train depot off to the right.
this was filmed in Illinois.
There is a mobile home there now. The grocery store was owned by Joe DeAngelo and had closed before the movie was made. Even so, they had to give it a more run down appearance for the movie. You can read about this in "Searching for Sparta" available on lulu.com.
Brilliant actors brilliant
ant portrayed... Same now America has never grown
That's why so many people are sneaking out, eh?
How you gonna have Tibbs doing police activities and not give him a gun? Ridiculous.
yeah, my only nitpick with this movie is why he wasn't carrying a gun..8t needed some throwaway explanation.
it was hell being black, in the south in the 60's. and i was born in 1967....wow
Only if you stayed after dark
every time Packy pulls out in that dually, he has to ride the clutch after first gear...maybe second gear is torn out and he has to skip it
I think he's double declutching due to weak or absent synchromesh.
Beah Richards.
"You talk crazy, are you gin drunk?"
Beah Richards and Sidney Poitier are fantastic here.
Actually Bea Richards, as noted above.
@@azmike3572 Sorry, I've been watching the Golden Girls....Thank you.
@@azmike3572 Beah
Red Plymouth with the confer flag looks like Christine from the movie
I think this one is a 1960
Yep and Christine is a '58. Well, truly a '57 but in the end they were all '58's lol
Thanks, Hamtrak. I see it differently but thanks for taking the time to reply.
Seeing all this shooting going on... When Tibbs picked up the gun it was ohhh shit look out he got a gun . They seemed more afraid a black man had a gun. Even though he was an officer I didn't see him carry a gun in this movie. I would say the only weapon he had was his Brain. Big Ups Sid
mans name first name last name a classic film
I wonder if the moth at 1:55 got a screen credit.
One of my favorite movies!
Mamma was his mum in Guest who's coming to Dinner 🤗🤗🤗
Which is actually the next movie for both of them.
In this film, "Mama" is an ironic name for an abortionist.
The last bit reminds me of the “Among Us” discussions.
Living in the deep south in the 50s and 60's I see this as the most accurate film ever
This movie was great. Rip sp
One skids the way Sidney does.And you know it too.
matt clark good actor
Sydney potıer a great actor at diffıcult tımes rıp thıs film done a lot for understand we all humans 😊
then post your own - each scene is unique - keeps interest with short segments - point isn't to post the movie
That’s a sweet 1960 Fury
Anthony James never got the proper credit for his excellent work in this movie. He was a great supporting actor. Always typecast due to his strong facial features
This is a movie you have to watch by yourself without interruptions
HA !!! And the good 0 boys arrive, LOL
Well Sidney Poitiers was the best in his day. We now have Mr Washington. How fortunate we are. Swoon.
As I watch this later.
Great movie.
Rod Steiger-- atour de force--wow
Is it my bad eye or did they use a STUNT DOUBLE for the slide down the ramp!? Enquiring minds want to know.
In one of the newspaper articles written during the filming of the movie, it was erroneously reported that Beah Richards was playing the role Sidney Poitier's mother. I guess the reporter made an assumption based on Richards' character being named Mama Caleba.
Can anyone tell me where Mama's accent is from? I've seen this film so many times but it's wonderful seeing each scene in isolation. Thanks for posting.
Sounds Jamaican.
hamtrak More like Creole or something.
Patrick Harrison Vicksburg Mississippi
Patrick Harrison she’s from Vicksburg Mississippi but, don’t know she taught acting here for years Art Evans was a top student.
..."you turned my little sister.......into a field slut?"....@@razorbackfilms
Nice slide Virgil, you ever think about trying out for baseball?
scenes like this were real.
I meant Bea Richards and Sidney Poitier are Wonder
Beah
People round here call me Mama kaleba
Crimanally underrated
..."you turned my little sister.......into a field slut?"...
by whom? this is one of the biggest movie ever made… true art.
It received the Academy award for Best Picture (1967)
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All right! Now that you've got me addicked to this movie i haven't seen in 40 years can you please download Segment #6 ? Lol. I'm ready for more of Virgil Thibbs. Thanks!
Jean Tetreault....You mean " Mr. Tibbs"!!
THE CALL HIM MR TIBBS. ...
I find it strange that Virgil Tibbs as a police officer (and a high ranking one at that) does not carry a pistol, if not for anything else, to defend himself if he is attacked like it happens twice in the plot.
thank you
Now we’re talking I bet this was good
read the book. NO ONE but Poitier & Steiger could have done this job here.
The way she speaks in this vid reminds me of yoda
I don't know who/whom could play the parts or carry them off the way they would
So the Sherif was in that mob?
No. And he wasn't a sheriff, he was the chief of police.
Shouldn’t Poitier have a gun? He is a policeman.
I'm I the only one who heard the fly
This was a serious scene
She was a wonderful actress, yet I don’t even know her name. Quite regal.
Beah Richards
you're welcome.
Does Anthony James EVER get to play the good guy?
Not that I've ever seen
Beah Richards was never as wonderful as she was in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner.
Intake Poitier at the peak of his skills, snd that’s saying a lot
..."you turned my little sister.......into a field slut?"...
A brilliant movie with top acting showing the Difference between the 2 races towards each other and at the end getting together but there's one problem.... the abortionist is aghast at the murder when Sydney mentions it.Something she practices.
ALESSANDRO DE SOUZA
See how the coward run…..lol
1:15
please interpret what your comment means.
are we supposed to know to what ffs refers.
bruce berger ...yes, ffs... try to catch up
For Fuck Sake lol
My god have mercy on you 🙏
BLACK TIME AND WHITE TIME ? I THOUGHT WE WERE EQUAL ? IS THIS " AMERICA " ?
Yeah right
You talk crazy are you gin-drunk?