That blank stare by Sidney when he says Oh Boy’ your just like the rest of us! This movie never gets old. These actors are just masters of there craft. One of the best movies ever made.
The scrip originally called for Poitier to just give Endicott a dirty look and walk out. But Sidney Poitier later said that there was absolutely no way he going to simply walk away, and insisted that he return the slap. He did.
Here are a FEW of my favorite movies.: 🍿 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER A PATCH OF BLUE SUMMERTIME COME BACK LI’L SHEBA IT STARTED IN NAPLES THREE DOINS IN A FOUNTAIN STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET CAUSE FOR ALARM STRANGER IN TOWN PATTERNS HOT SPELL Have you seen any of these? ……just to name a few.
Endecott)at the end of his scene, looks as if he's going to cry. It was his realization, that those "Good ole days" of his kind...are really going away.
Here's the truth about this scene. Poitier told Jewison that if he didn't allow him to clap Endicott back, he wouldn't do the movie. So, it was done. And it's probably one of the greatest scenes in any movie ever made. Powerful in a way that changed the world. Opened a door long closed.
I remember once hearing Robert Townsend point out how that in the old days of Hollywood movies, whenever a black was attacked, be it physical or verbal, there never a retort. The black person couldn't retaliate and had to be passive. But this historic scene signified the revolution that was taking place not only in Hollywood but America in general in which blacks were no longer docile and passive in response to white bigotry. With the burgeoning black power movement, coinciding with the release of the movie in 1967, Sidney realized this too, hence the reason he insisted that he had to retaliate in this scene.
The nuances in this scene are amazing. How Tibbs first lets Endicott believe he only admired the orchids and as Endicott realizes he’s not only been had but Tibbs sophistication begins to become clear he reacts violently. Tibbs backhand takes his manhood not only physically, but intellectually as well✊🏾
Yes but how did Endicott fail to suspect right from the start that the policemen had come to question him ? Even before they arrived he should know. It is obvious that he was waiting for them, as Gilespie had probably called and told him they were coming. He even knew Virgil Tibbs' name and his status.
So Endicott had nothing to do with Colbert’s murder? It was merely the diner kid robbing Colbert? Then why did Tibbs find the fern soil in Colbert’s car? Colbert must have gone to Endicott’s greenhouse for some reason.
I saw this movie when i was six or seven back in '68...that slap back scene stuck in my mind...as i grew to adulthood, this scene reminded me to take no shit from anyone trying to treat me as a lesser human being!
The part where Tibb’s face changes when he confronts his own hatred is epic. Compelling actors in a well written scene is quite frankly a lost art form.
I haven't seen all the movie although i know what's the plot..so what does the policeman exactly means by saying to Tibbs you're like the rest of us? That he is not behaving correctly as well, that he is moved by hostile feelings?
What he means Kalmia, he is just like the rest of the people in town, they all want to bring that man down off of that hill. They know he is guilty as charge, they just want someone to prove it. 4/15/2023
@@kalmia01He was pointing out that Tibbs has his own prejudices just like those in town. The look on Virgil’s face when he realizes that what the Chief said was true.
I know!! Yet I can’t decide if that look is reproach for Endicott or for Virgil and he’s letting his boss know that he thought the black detective was out of line. I can see it going either way but it would be balls for the butler to actually show his boss attitude after that
*********************Lou, I'm 53 yrs old and this movie is way ahead of my time. I saw it once in UC Irvine (College) and since then it changed my life to understand how dark our country was during the decade I was born**********************
@@GALLACTO Make America “great again”. Well, it depends on WHO/WHOM you ask. …..or, has America ever been GREAT? GREAT at/about WHAT? No, she has her skeletons in the closet too. 8/31/2024. Today, America is buck wild and rogue🦍🦍🦍🦍🦍🦍
What i love is that last bit; an awareness that Virgil is himself flawed in the same way that the 'evil white is flawed' great acting to display that realisation- great chemistry between those two
I think a bit too much is read into that. Whatever preconceived ideas he has about Southern whites of that period are justified by what he goes through in this film. I feel it’s a flaw that’s simply an awareness of the reality.
Sidney Poitier took roles he plsy dignified roles when in those days black people had degrading roles like obedient slaves he refuse those roles he gave Blave people prideso in the movie Sidney slap the rich florist guy back in most of his movies he took no flaks off of racist people
I bet when Henry went back to the kitchen and servants’ quarters….EVERY “colored” person heard about what happened in that greenhouse and they would laugh behind his back.
The flower-meister's condescending tone towards Tibbs is changed by one sweet slap. A pivotal scene in cinema history. The film won five Oscars in the 1968 ceremony that had been postponed two days because of Martin Luther King' assassination.
I was only Nine or Maybe Ten in 1968 when This Film Came out. Then we were in Canada where the Bigotry was more Subdued & Not So Openly prevalent, or was being Contested on a Daily basis. So the Fact's You Stated about the Delay of the Award's at the Oscar's. Because of Martin Luther King's, Assassination Prior too that Gigantic Event. Was Completely New Information that I wasn't aware of Until Now. Or I had nonchalantly or just forgetfully hadn't Recalled that of Fact of Late. Over the Year's this Great Film 📽️🎥 has been Worldly, Recognized for it's Big Contributions, to Bringing the Fight for Racial Equality too the Forefront of American Politics in those Crucial Times & Years. My Personal Opinions & Views of Mr Sidney Poitier, were Formed a few Years Later. After I'd seen this Film, Oh at least a Couple of Time's, and we had also Experienced the recent Assassination of Robert Kennedy. By then Mr Poitier had made Several more Popular Film's, such as Lilies of The Field's, To Sir With Love, & also Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. His Outstanding Acting, Talent's were just Fantastic, and Very impressive in All of Those Four, & the Others He went on too Make Later. In all Honesty, I'd have to Say that Mr Sidney Poitier, has Always been My personal Favorite, Male African American Actor of All Time, & in Any Context of the Film's Genres. You Name the Say Personality of a Film with Him in It. And He would've made that Film His. IT'S Now a Sad Thing that He Recently Passed Away. But His Legacy, Will Carry On, Timelessly because of Who He Was, and Personified During His Lifetime. Thank You So Much for Sharing, these Tid Bits of His Film Career With US. May God Bless Him, & We as well, AMEN. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏.
@@JESUSISLORDforevermore888 I also would of been close too that age as my Birthday is September 1st of every year. Just as today is my 66th Birthday. As for the Film it was an absolutely Great Film 🎥 with an outstanding cast of lead character's as well as costars in it. Thank you for sharing.
Although he didn't say it, it looks as if after Virgil slaps Endicott and he says, '"There was a time I couldn't had you shot for that," the look on Virgil's face seems to say, "Well, those days are a thing of the past, white man." That's the beauty of this scene.
Indeed... man, especially the very sick kind, love's to have the upper hand and when physical superiority is lost then psychological superiority is sought. A reminder of the 'old days' was a last resort. A real officer, in a real situation like this would have definitely been 'disgusted' by such a statement!
Endicott needed that slap for so many reasons! Not just because he told the butler to go fetch🐕 something to drink! Not just because he described the Negra is like a flower that needs to be nourished! But mainly because he thought he had the right the slap Tibbs whether he was a cop or not! And Tibbs gave him a bitch slap that Ike Turner would have been proud of🤣🤣🤣🤣😡
Silly of commenters to be jumping to the superlative to describe this movie and this scene; the world of cinema is too big for that sort of statement. But I will say anyone who has seen this film never forgets it.
Sadly, many of the actors in this great movie have past; interesting though, that it was filmed mostly in southern Illinois, as the producers feared doing it in the deep south.
When I saw this movie in its initial release in NYC, the audience cheered, laughed, and applauded the slapping scene, which was unprecedented in movie history. That was in 1967. What has happened to this country? Today, policemen (and wannabe dictators like George Zimmerman) kill unarmed black men!
Kirsten I. Russell those policemen involved in the shootings are also black. "They're just like the rest of us." the bigger issues are with police state department policies and gang violence. There's more black on black murders in the past year than all recorded lynchings in American history.
That is so stupid. That so did not happen in New York. If anything, while they may not have shown their racism the same way as say someone in Indiana or Mississippi, they showed disgust toward the scene.
One of the best scenes ever in the history of movie making. . Black Americans need to adopt this stance. When the white man slaps you should slap him back right away, literally and figuratively. If this was being done from the beginning of of slavery and throughout the racial history of America. we would not be where we are today - 2022. The racial divide is just as wide.
Sidney Poitier & Rod Steigar did a miraculous job on this movie, a great storyline, production & direction, plus of course, two wonderful exponents from the acting profession, made this a great film. Our most grateful thanks to all those involved. Hasta luego TJR Canary Islands.
Yes. It's been stated that he insisted on his character slapping the man back because to do otherwise (i.e., just walk off in disgust) would be the actions of a 'whipping boy' and not a grown man.
Imagine if before he left, or better yet hopefully after the wounds had healed a bit, Mr. Tibbs had come back and Both apologized for letting their biases get the better of them. It might not have smoothed all the ruffled feathers but it would have helped.
This scene never gets old. Game changer for me. Saw as a child growing up white in a very prejudiced Chicago 'changing' neighborhood. Even as a child I knew what people said about blacks was bullshit. When I watched this movie scene it terrified me as an already avid fan of Poitier. When he wasn't brutally beat or murdered something welled up in my chest and i started to cry. Happiness, I knew anything was possible then
That blank stare by Sidney when he says Oh Boy’ your just like the rest of us! This movie never gets old. These actors are just masters of there craft. One of the best movies ever made.
They filmed itin Sparta Illinois not Sparta Mississippi, for fear that Mississippi was too racist
You are absolutely correct, my friend.
The scrip originally called for Poitier to just give Endicott a dirty look and walk out. But Sidney Poitier later said that there was absolutely no way he going to simply walk away, and insisted that he return the slap. He did.
Here are a FEW of my favorite movies.:
🍿 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER
A PATCH OF BLUE
SUMMERTIME
COME BACK LI’L SHEBA
IT STARTED IN NAPLES
THREE DOINS IN A FOUNTAIN
STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET
CAUSE FOR ALARM
STRANGER IN TOWN
PATTERNS
HOT SPELL
Have you seen any of these?
……just to name a few.
One of the greatest films ever made 👍
Wowwwww... One of the most crucial moments in movie history...
What a man, what a man. Rest in peace sir.
Endecott)at the end of his scene, looks as if he's going to cry. It was his realization, that those "Good ole
days" of his kind...are really going away.
Sidney Porter should have won the oscar for this movie a great actor.
endicott is like israel, crying when someone fights back and then crying to usa for help.
Guess country still not ready for that but beginning of in your face people. Get ready for it
That little shrug of the shoulders that Tibbs does after Endicott threatens him... "I don't sweat you!" Magnificent acting.
Indeed Tibbs says "fuck this redneck hick town" and I definitely agree :)
Here's the truth about this scene. Poitier told Jewison that if he didn't allow him to clap Endicott back, he wouldn't do the movie. So, it was done. And it's probably one of the greatest scenes in any movie ever made. Powerful in a way that changed the world. Opened a door long closed.
poitier had it in his contract,'wherever and however the movie was shown this scene would be in it'
That is called cool
I remember once hearing Robert Townsend point out how that in the old days of Hollywood movies, whenever a black was attacked, be it physical or verbal, there never a retort. The black person couldn't retaliate and had to be passive. But this historic scene signified the revolution that was taking place not only in Hollywood but America in general in which blacks were no longer docile and passive in response to white bigotry. With the burgeoning black power movement, coinciding with the release of the movie in 1967, Sidney realized this too, hence the reason he insisted that he had to retaliate in this scene.
It's been 9 yrs since you've Enlightened us with your Trivia. Just wondering... Which Closed Door This Scene Opened?
I'd Love to Bitch Slap Hussain Osama for Dividing the country All Over Again. A real Evil piece of Shit!!
This was a great movie. I cant get enough of it.
The nuances in this scene are amazing. How Tibbs first lets Endicott believe he only admired the orchids and as Endicott realizes he’s not only been had but Tibbs sophistication begins to become clear he reacts violently. Tibbs backhand takes his manhood not only physically, but intellectually as well✊🏾
Yes but how did Endicott fail to suspect right from the start that the policemen had come to question him ? Even before they arrived he should know. It is obvious that he was waiting for them, as Gilespie had probably called and told him they were coming. He even knew Virgil Tibbs' name and his status.
Slapped that pimp Slapped that maggot
So Endicott had nothing to do with Colbert’s murder? It was merely the diner kid robbing Colbert? Then why did Tibbs find the fern soil in Colbert’s car? Colbert must have gone to Endicott’s greenhouse for some reason.
Did Endicott have anything to do with Colbert’s killing? Or was it just a botched robbery from the kid working at the diner??
@@theo9952 My guess is Endicott looks to be in his Eighties and couldn’t add things up that were happening to him very quickly.
Jester Hairston is the actor playing the butler. He wrote many spirituals and played a character on the Amos n' Andy television series.
He also went on to the play the church elder on the sitcom "Amen".
@@mjw1955 yes he did.
I saw this movie when i was six or seven back in '68...that slap back scene stuck in my mind...as i grew to adulthood, this scene reminded me to take no shit from anyone trying to treat me as a lesser human being!
"The Slap Heard Around the World" !
RIGHT ON ! SHO NUFF! YA DIG ! UHURU!
👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾. That’s right. People may be better off than you, but they are not better than you
@@theoriginalmr.j1422 🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙🤙
The part where Tibb’s face changes when he confronts his own hatred is epic. Compelling actors in a well written scene is quite frankly a lost art form.
That last part of the scene.. you’re just like the rest of us…. Best scene of the movie. Great acting by both men.
I haven't seen all the movie although i know what's the plot..so what does the policeman exactly means by saying to Tibbs you're like the rest of us? That he is not behaving correctly as well, that he is moved by hostile feelings?
What he means Kalmia, he is just like the rest of the people in town, they all want to bring that man down off of that hill. They know he is guilty as charge, they just want someone to prove it. 4/15/2023
@@kalmia01He was pointing out that Tibbs has his own prejudices just like those in town. The look on Virgil’s face when he realizes that what the Chief said was true.
@@rogercook8277Endicott had nothing to do with the murder.
@@rogercook8277 8/31/2024 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Happy 91st Birthday Mr.Sidney Poitier!
The look on the butler's face priceless!!!
My favorite clip
R. I. H .P SIR SIDNEY POITIER
I know!! Yet I can’t decide if that look is reproach for Endicott or for Virgil and he’s letting his boss know that he thought the black detective was out of line. I can see it going either way but it would be balls for the butler to actually show his boss attitude after that
His response at 3:01 indicates that he has felt that across his face more than once.
How did I never see this movie?? I'm on it.
*********************Lou, I'm 53 yrs old and this movie is way ahead of my time. I saw it once in UC Irvine (College) and since then it changed my life to understand how dark our country was during the decade I was born**********************
@@GALLACTO Make America “great again”. Well, it depends on WHO/WHOM you ask. …..or, has America ever been GREAT? GREAT at/about WHAT? No, she has her skeletons in the closet too. 8/31/2024. Today, America is buck wild and rogue🦍🦍🦍🦍🦍🦍
What i love is that last bit; an awareness that Virgil is himself flawed in the same way that the 'evil white is flawed' great acting to display that realisation- great chemistry between those two
I think a bit too much is read into that. Whatever preconceived ideas he has about Southern whites of that period are justified by what he goes through in this film. I feel it’s a flaw that’s simply an awareness of the reality.
@@dzanier oh yeh - the main thing is good, I just like that nuanced, individualised bit more
@@ikilei I agree with you.
Sidney Poitier took roles he plsy dignified roles when in those days black people had degrading roles like obedient slaves he refuse those roles he gave Blave people prideso in the movie Sidney slap the rich florist guy back in most of his movies he took no flaks off of racist people
In the face of history and that particular era would he have been wrong?
Sidney was one of the greats. Mid sixties was his best time. Guess who’s coming to dinner, to sit with love and this powerful movie.
Damn even Henry is shaking his head.
I bet when Henry went back to the kitchen and servants’ quarters….EVERY “colored” person heard about what happened in that greenhouse and they would laugh behind his back.
The slap heard 'round the world! History making!
"I can pull that fat cat down! I can bring him right of this hill!" Gold!
Your just like the rest of us ain’t ya was the line
Please post the whole movie I love the show from 80s glad I found this
The flower-meister's condescending tone towards Tibbs is changed by one sweet slap. A pivotal scene in cinema history. The film won five Oscars in the 1968 ceremony that had been postponed two days because of Martin Luther King' assassination.
I was only Nine or Maybe Ten in 1968 when This Film Came out. Then we were in Canada where the Bigotry was more Subdued & Not So Openly prevalent, or was being Contested on a Daily basis. So the Fact's You Stated about the Delay of the Award's at the Oscar's. Because of Martin Luther King's, Assassination Prior too that Gigantic Event. Was Completely New Information that I wasn't aware of Until Now. Or I had nonchalantly or just forgetfully hadn't Recalled that of Fact of Late.
Over the Year's this Great Film 📽️🎥 has been Worldly, Recognized for it's Big Contributions, to Bringing the Fight for Racial Equality too the Forefront of American Politics in those Crucial Times & Years. My Personal Opinions & Views of Mr Sidney Poitier, were Formed a few Years Later. After I'd seen this Film, Oh at least a Couple of Time's, and we had also Experienced the recent Assassination of Robert Kennedy.
By then Mr Poitier had made Several more Popular Film's, such as Lilies of The Field's, To Sir With Love, & also Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. His Outstanding Acting, Talent's were just Fantastic, and Very impressive in All of Those Four, & the Others He went on too Make Later.
In all Honesty, I'd have to Say that Mr Sidney Poitier, has Always been My personal Favorite, Male African American Actor of All Time, & in Any Context of the Film's Genres. You Name the Say Personality of a Film with Him in It. And He would've made that Film His. IT'S Now a Sad Thing that He Recently Passed Away. But His Legacy, Will Carry On, Timelessly because of Who He Was, and Personified During His Lifetime.
Thank You So Much for Sharing, these Tid Bits of His Film Career With US. May God Bless Him, & We as well, AMEN. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏.
But did he boast the goose?
@@robertwaid3579 I was 10 yrs old.
@@robertwaid3579 Beautiful comment 8/31/2024. Never thought I would be around to see how far America has fallen, especially Black people.
@@JESUSISLORDforevermore888 I also would of been close too that age as my Birthday is September 1st of every year. Just as today is my 66th Birthday. As for the Film it was an absolutely Great Film 🎥 with an outstanding cast of lead character's as well as costars in it. Thank you for sharing.
Although he didn't say it, it looks as if after Virgil slaps Endicott and he says, '"There was a time I couldn't had you shot for that," the look on Virgil's face seems to say, "Well, those days are a thing of the past, white man." That's the beauty of this scene.
No that slap says not on my watch...
I think he’s more repulsed by what Endicott said.
Indeed... man, especially the very sick kind, love's to have the upper hand and when physical superiority is lost then psychological superiority is sought. A reminder of the 'old days' was a last resort. A real officer, in a real situation like this would have definitely been 'disgusted' by such a statement!
The house help sadly shakes his head indicating his “disappointment” in Masta Endicott’s decent in his eyes
This movie is a dramatic play. I watched it 100 times.
My favorite scene!!
And thank God that time is over, Mr. Endicott!!!
+austin teutsch Is it though?
@Maya Yeel they dont?
I fell in love with Mr. Poitier @ 18,watching Lillies of the Field! I’ve loved him my whole life! I still love him,even though he’s gone!
Powerful moment!
Endicott needed that slap for so many reasons! Not just because he told the butler to go fetch🐕 something to drink! Not just because he described the Negra is like a flower that needs to be nourished! But mainly because he thought he had the right the slap Tibbs whether he was a cop or not! And Tibbs gave him a bitch slap that Ike Turner would have been proud of🤣🤣🤣🤣😡
Loloooooooo🤣🤣🤣🤣🤸♀️🏌♀️🥂👏👏
But putting aside the rest, what was wrong about offering something to drink ? That was a polite thing to do.
Comparing Mr. Poitier to Ike Turner?
Wrong on so many levels.
And, in the end, Endicott cried like a birch!
Sorry, bitch.
Supremacy is based on excepted inferiority or it fails.
The way he cried after Tibbs slapped the shyt outta him. He just saw his whole belief system just crumble right in front of him.
I tried to think of where I'd seen Endicott before. He starred in a Twilight Zone episode, "The Shelter."
Aragorn Stellar Also the soap opera "The Guiding Light".
H.B. Lewis on "Guiding Light"
Aragorn Stellar love that episode. Mob mentality
Goodbye Virgil...we will love you forever Mr Tibbs...to sir with LOVE!
Powerful moment of many in this one.
Endicott looks like Mr. Burns.
hahaha
The racial tension was reaching its climax in an unhinged America when this film was made
fantastic movie/ fantastic actors.
My favourite scene of the movie.
@2:28 "You two came here to question me?"
And a rooster crows. Dawn. A revelation. That is beautiful foley work.
That was great you're just like the rest of us but so true lol.
Mr Endicott was on General Hospital soap opera in the early 80's.
Chief stop mid chew when he heard about that material and that slow walk before the slap you got the right one today 👊🏽👊🏽
"Oh boy, Man! your just like the rest of us"
You will never see anything on film today that will even come close to comparing with the quality of acting shown in this movie.
We always forget the Director ! He's always 50% of the movie : good or bad.
boy ,you'r just like the rest of us... of course he is,couleur don't mean shait ,we are all the same,... for better and for worse...
4:43 That look on the face of Sidney Poitier: like a spruce goose
Endicott was mentally broken by that single backhand slap.
What did the five fingers say to the face?
"This ain't 1855 NO MO'!"
Why did Mr. Endicott start with a slap?
What kind of a man is he?
a guy used to a world where he had the right to slap a black man if he was offended. Mister Tibbs showed him a world where he does not.
Endicott is no man he’s a coward
@@Independentfellow ***************Could've said it better myself*********************
He'd be in jail for assaulting a police officer now a days.
@@madjack1748 depends on how rich and powerful he would be today honestly.
Powerful scene
Fine cast.
The slap heard 'round the cinematic world.
You are just like the rest of us.
Very good.Alpha and Omega.
Steiger and Poitier were incredible in this movie.Film did well to beat out the Graduate and Bonnie and Clyde for Best picture
Silly of commenters to be jumping to the superlative to describe this movie and this scene; the world of cinema is too big for that sort of statement. But I will say anyone who has seen this film never forgets it.
“What did fingers say to the face…SLAP”…and there we have it history made
That moment could have cost Tibbs his life. The heart ❤️ of this film 🎥 🎞 🎦 🎬 is. Above all, Gillespies' 👍 👮♂️ 👮♀️ good policeman.
Funny thing, Endicott actually treats him like a man. Ironically enough. And addresses him as Mr Tibbs.
He was patronizing him by calling him "Mr Tibbs". Did you not listen to how he actually talked to the detective ?
Why didn't he show him where he was growing the seed pods?
Thats right Invasion of the Body Snatchers ...lol another Great Horror, Drama , Sci Fi Classic
WOW !!! THE SLAP That WAS HEARD FROM. ALL AROUND THE 🌎. SIDNEY POITIER.....
1 of the Best scenes in Cinematic History give me 2 days bring that fat cat down an the Slap back brilliantly done
Great scene but many people missing the other point the scene was trying to make.
Which is?
Good people on both sides
Great movie
Tibbs gave him the hands of the ancestors!
In the Heat of the Night was a very great movie just one of his best but the movie lily of the valley what's his best and I say that thanks
Sadly, many of the actors in this great movie have past; interesting though, that it was filmed mostly in southern Illinois, as the producers feared doing it in the deep south.
I wish the butler said "hehehe you got slaaaapped" at 03:50 lol
I know Henry was like Daaaaaaaamn 😯😯
Mr. Tibbs, didn't get to drink his lemonade. Hatred is more important than thirst I guess
A segment should have been done where the butler tells the other workers about the slap.I can only imagine the jubilation.
Wait, what kind of orchid was he talking about?
epiphytic
That's right slap that savage back 😂😆😂
When I saw this movie in its initial release in NYC, the audience cheered, laughed, and applauded the slapping scene, which was unprecedented in movie history. That was in 1967. What has happened to this country? Today, policemen (and wannabe dictators like George Zimmerman) kill unarmed black men!
Kirsten I. Russell those policemen involved in the shootings are also black. "They're just like the rest of us." the bigger issues are with police state department policies and gang violence. There's more black on black murders in the past year than all recorded lynchings in American history.
That is so stupid. That so did not happen in New York. If anything, while they may not have shown their racism the same way as say someone in Indiana or Mississippi, they showed disgust toward the scene.
Kjleed13 you’re spreading misinformation and you know it jack ass.
Kirsten I. Russell
They always did kill them but now we have phone cams
One of the best scenes ever in the history of movie making. . Black Americans need to adopt this stance. When the white man slaps you should slap him back right away, literally and figuratively. If this was being done from the beginning of of slavery and throughout the racial history of America. we would not be where we are today - 2022. The racial divide is just as wide.
Ι think it 's been a long time since black Americans were getting slapped by whites, even in Mississippi.
The racial divide wasn't this wide until Obama became President, the great divider in chief
Amen.
Larry Gates, HB Lewis from Guiding Light!
'Causality' - in a nutshell 😁
Am I mistaken or isn't it a crime to hit an officer? Virgil could have or should have been able to cuff him right there after Indicot slapped him.
Sidney Potier
Sidney Poitier & Rod Steigar did a miraculous job on this movie, a great storyline, production & direction, plus of course, two wonderful exponents from the acting profession, made this a great film. Our most grateful thanks to all those involved.
Hasta luego TJR Canary Islands.
Endicott looks like a poor man's Bob Hope
Is It True Sidney Poitier Insisted To Director Norman Jewison On The Slapping Face Scene With Larry Gates?
Yes. It's been stated that he insisted on his character slapping the man back because to do otherwise (i.e., just walk off in disgust) would be the actions of a 'whipping boy' and not a grown man.
Poor Gillespie 😊
This scene humanists Gillespie
HE DIDN'T DRINK HIS LEMONADE
Sydney gave Oprah more then she had coming.
Imagine if before he left, or better yet hopefully after the wounds had healed a bit, Mr. Tibbs had come back and Both apologized for letting their biases get the better of them. It might not have smoothed all the ruffled feathers but it would have helped.
1:15 Wait a minute. WAAAIITT A MINUTE! Did he said what I think he just said?!?!😮
Yes, if what you thought you heard was "Neeegrah".
Yea he just realised that a black men is just Human being like him with feelings and all 🤪🤪🤪
HA !!! LOL !!! He SLAPED the white off that prejudice whimp !!!
Similarities to the Murdaugh’s , I imagine .
Sounded like a three stooges slap.
Maybe it was The Guiding Light.
Sidney? ma topesc dupa el !!
FulgDeNeaJin in
Ya don’t slap the Sid….nothing good will come from it.
My dear Mr. Endicott, I'm not from Sparta.. I'm from Philly! Virgil don't play that ****
This scene never gets old. Game changer for me. Saw as a child growing up white in a very prejudiced Chicago 'changing' neighborhood. Even as a child I knew what people said about blacks was bullshit. When I watched this movie scene it terrified me as an already avid fan of Poitier. When he wasn't brutally beat or murdered something welled up in my chest and i started to cry. Happiness, I knew anything was possible then
Something light oh white ha ha