One of my all-time favorite scenes from ANY movie. Steiger is brilliant. Poitier's body language is pure choreography. RIP Sid. Thank you for being there for this 67-year-old black man as he grew up on the South Side of Chicago.
Great movie. I love how their relationship turned to an almost father and son level at the end. and the mutual respect that developed for each other.....different worlds, but same job and same sense of service
RIP and long live Rod Steiger (April 14, 1925 - July 9, 2002), aged 77 And RIP and long live Sidney Poitier (February 20, 1927 - January 6, 2022), aged 94 You both will always be remembered as legends.
Very possibly one of the greatest scenes ever filmed. The feelings that were conveyed, without words from Sidney, were so subtle and sublime, said everything about this film
I was lunching in Beverly Hills about 10 years ago with a renowned attorney and Mr. Poiter stopped by to greet my lunch date. I almost passed out. He is and was so elegant and classy.
I was at UCLA Medical Center back in 2012 and I walked past Sidney Poitier in a hallway. I believe he was there for cancer treatment. I recognized him immediately. He was gracious enough, despite his suffering, to acknowledge me and smile as we passed each other.
This ranks up there with some of the greatest movies of all time. The casting is incredible, the acting cosmic. If you've managed to miss seeing this movie, you need to watch.
Couldn't agree more. Today you can never make this film with another actor. Even Denzel Washington couldn't replace Poitier.. Rod Steiger is definitely irreplaceable..
It is amazing to me how the name Sidney Poitier is never mentioned as one of the greatest artists who have ever lived. The Defiant Ones, Lillies Of The Field, A Raisin In The Sun, A Patch Of Blue, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, and this masterpiece, In The Heat Of The Night...can’t begin to imagine the amount of hate & threats that he dealt with from everywhere at a time when race relations reached its hottest of boiling points. This movie is Poitier & Rod Steiger at their very best, and it really is one of the greatest ever made.
1958: British Academy Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Defiant Ones 1958: Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin Film Festival) for The Defiant Ones[49] 1963: Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for Lilies of the Field 1963: Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin Film Festival) for Lilies of the Field[50] 1964: Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Lilies of the Field 1974: Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) 1982: Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award[51] 1992: AFI Life Achievement Award 1995: Kennedy Center Honors 1997: Appointed non-resident Bahamian Ambassador to Japan 1999: SAG Life Achievement Award 2000: NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special for The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn 2001: NAACP Image Award - Hall of Fame Award 2001 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album - Rick Harris, John Runnette (producers) and Sidney Poitier for The Measure of a Man 2002: Honorary Oscar - "For his extraordinary performances and unique presence on the screen and for representing the industry with dignity, style and intelligence" 2009: Presidential Medal of Freedom[52] 2011: Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute[53] honoring his life and careers 2016: BAFTA Fellowship
"I don't think you can let opportunity like that pass by".. I don't know how many times I watched that scene and every time I smile, one of the best in the movies history 😀
I saw this movie when it came out in 67 during the race riots. I couldn't fully appreciate how great this movie was at the time but I do remember enjoying it as a young teenager. Its one of those movies you can see over and over again because the acting and all the characters in the movie were so great.
Gillespie was astute enough to recognize the "opportunity" to deliver the gut punch that would keep Tibbs in Sparta. The step he takes towards Tibbs while delivering that line is brilliant.
One thing that is always overlooked and never mentioned about this film is the amazing musical score by Quincy Jones, that along with the plot, the performances of Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger made this film the masterpiece it is.
Truly one of the best films ever, outstanding performance from Rod Steiger and also Sydney Poitier, staggeringly intense, the gazing and intensity, and a fowl owl on the prowl wow
Well crafted, well acted, believable characters. So many good things about this movie. This is a particularly good scene. The sheriff shows a lot of insight into human, not just white, nature and Virgil suddenly is aware that a white southerner is actually looking at him as a man, with human pride who really does want an opportunity to show what he can do, like everyone else does.
@@jeffreykaufmann2867 the deceased buisness owners wife won't build a factory in Sparta if Gillespie doesn't catch her husbands killer. That's why Gillespie is almost begging Tibbs to provide his help.
@@marks_sparks1 Thanks. Have you seen In Cold Blood (1967). With Robert Blake and Scott Wilson? Scott Wilson is the White guy in prison who asks Tibbs: " Why are you dressed in a White Man's Clothes?"
People just have to keep seeing these movies. Not for just the reminders of times gone past but for the sheer acting brilliance you rarely see now. Steiger....just damn!!!
Director Norman Jewison had the idea to have Rod Steiger chew gum for the character of the chief. It's a cool touch--Gillespie chews faster when excited and slower when contemplative.
Steiger works it brilliantly, pausing to chew a bit to help a line or a moment breath. Setting the audience up for the next 'round' in their verbal/psychological sparring match. Amazing stuff.
The late great Roland Kirk on that flute. Wonderful how Quincy's music is slow and simmering throughout, like the musical version of the temperature of the town.
What an AWESOME movie!!! Just the image of seeing them sitting on opposite sides of the Bench… was pure Gold. It the unspoken thing of all of us being that close…. Yet worlds apart!!! Whoever wrote or directed that movie, CAPTURED the essence of the world back then. Absolute GOLD!!
Sidney was great but with Steiger who was supernaturally excellent in that sheriff's role -- made for wonderful dialogue and characters. This film is up there with "To Kill A Mockingbird." There are racists, there are good ole boys, but in Steiger's case he was a tough lawman first, and in his way, he was smart. He wanted justice and he knew Virgil's city experience would benefit his investigation. By the film's end -- they were somewhat friends. There's a lesson in that -- we have yet to learn. One of the greatest motion pictures ever made.
Sidney was the star attraction yes...but Steiger -- because of his intense acting reputation and A-list actor standing -- won the Academy Award for that film. Don't undermine Steiger's contribution. As a pair -- the two were very good together. But Steiger was already a heavyweight in the movie business and despite the greatness of Sidney -- Rod had scenes that were stunning in this film. Completely against type. Steiger was no Southern good ole boy. He was born in New York State. Steiger was coming off Dr. Zhivago & The Pawnbroker. Sidney was coming off To Sir, With Love. Sidney too, was an Academy Award winner -- TWO award-winning actors in lead roles? You don't get that too often San. Tickets were sold for that film because BOTH of them were featured.
Man, why don't they make movies like this any more? Movies with meaningful, elaborate stories and deep, complex characters, well written and well acted.
Because every generation that comes after the next gets just a little bit more dumber,sillier, simpler. Look at the kids and adults today are doing? Posting stuff on social media , ,Making dumb fake videos for the sake of clicks and views, the media we consume on a daily basis these days is terrible. Everything from music to movies to Tv shows everything has just got progressively worse, hell even great games are only made few and far between these days...theres no more quality in anything just rushing everything to get the next product out there to make more money, like every goddamn thing disney has put out since even before they started their streaming service. We Keep doing remakes of everything now, we are running out of ideas so we just recycle old content..the people who grew up in the 50s 60s 70s and 80s were a different breed of people. Take the ninja turtles movie for example, Can anyone honestly say any possible remage has been anything close to the original where it had real dope looking costumes piloted by such great talented Martial artists and just made everything CGI and digital...Nothing is authentic anymore..not even people, More people are so disengenious
Poitier, one of the greatest actors ever in his own right, considered Spencer Tracey and Rod Steiger to be the finest actors he ever worked with. If you want to get an idea of Steiger's acting range, go watch On the Waterfront, Doctor Zhivago, Waterloo and Duck, You Sucker.
Sidney's character reminds so much of my Dad, this movie was unbelievably good!.... You feel the emotions of every character no matter what color they are!....
That was a busy year for Portier who also made “To Sir With Love” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. “ All outstanding movies. RIP to all actors in them who are no longer with us
An interesting detail is the train board in the background. The station was indeed on the GM&O main line between St. Louis and New Orleans, so the top two entries are legitimate. However, Sparta ILLINOIS was between St. Louis and Jackson, TN, so the bottom two entries are for filming purposes only. Although the train Tibbs boards to leave arrives southbound, shortly thereafter it is shown heading north with him aboard. The GM&O between St. Louis and Jackson did not have a lot longer to live in 1967. The GM&O was merged into the IC 5 years later and they began diverting traffic off of the GM&O because of steep grades and a lot of curvature south of Sparta. It is still there through town but ends a few miles to the north.
I remember Oscar night.....the clip they showed after announcing Steiger's win for best actor was 1:55 to 2:30......love this flick, it won best picture, too.....love the ending, not drawn out or sappy, just a culmination of Gillespie's growing respect and fondness for Tibbs.....exquisite film making.....
Even though the movie is supposed to take place in September (still hot down south), this scene was actually filmed in late Fall 1966 in Sparta, Illinois (see the colors of the leaves on the trees, and that is why Rod Steiger zips up his jacket). Sidney Poitier on the DVD said that day it was windy with the temperature in the upper 30s and both he and Rod Steiger were freezing their asses off.
it's not just that the dialogue is exceptional ,it's the enhancement to the dialogue with the masterful nuanced way it's delivered which just makes the whole scene fly into the impactful greatness not many movie scenes attain.
An unforgetable movie. I was just 15 in 67 when i saw this in Athens in Greece. I think I saw it several times after that, because i was a fanatic cinephile as a teenager and often saw the films i liked, several times. The title of the film was changed to what translates as ''The Story Of A Crime''. The foreign movie importers were into the ridiculous habit of changing the original titles to whatever they thought would help selling more tickets, back in those days.
Oh my God. Oh please Hollywood. Please don't do it. Let a crowning achievement just stand there on its own, unregurgitated, perfect in every way, as it was and as it is.
It's scenes like this (and this isn't the only one) that really set this movie a step beyond just great. It would have been SO EASY to just make it about race, but this scene is about character and human weaknesses, and it cuts both ways and it's brilliant. Just WAY ahead of its time.
Such a fine movie. Just watched it for the third time...in the past 40 years. It is still as interesting and engaging as ever. What excellent acting by everyone. Sidney is just so suave and handsome!
I'm from NC and lived in Mississippi in my early childhood. (my dad was stationed on the Naval Air base in Meridian) There is a difference in the accents and Steiger really got the Mississippi accent right.
This is a movie that you never get tired of watching. Two of the greatest actors of all times. And taking part during the civil rights era and they all played everything perfectly. Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger were both top of there game.
Stieger should of gotten the oscar ALONE just for the gum chewing, yellow shades, slip on boots, tilted angle police cap, and the improvised southern accent. Robert at 67
One of the best scenes, he says all that he says at the end, and it seems like Virgil should be offended but the truth is Virgil knows.... Gillespie is actually right.
I`ve watched this scene 1000x - From a kid to a grown up man and it never gets boring. No frills, no effects, just class A acting.
One of my all-time favorite scenes from ANY movie. Steiger is brilliant. Poitier's body language is pure choreography. RIP Sid. Thank you for being there for this 67-year-old black man as he grew up on the South Side of Chicago.
They both were brilliant actors....RIP Mr Tibbs
Poitier was one of the great actors of the 20th century 💪🏿
Not to mention the movie director Norman Jewison who put it together. He is retired and still living at age 94.
And this 63 year old white man who grew up on the west side of Toronto.
@@mckessa17 Toronto, what a joke
One of the best movies of all times....RIP Mr. Poitier.
R.I.P. William Schallert, Warren Oates, Rod Steiger.
Vladimír Dvořák Y E S...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RIP Mr. Tibbs. Two legendary actors going at each other. Poitier's posture is unwavering and Steiger just knows what needs to be said.
When Sidney laughs, that shows just how good this script is. One of the most important movies ever made.
That "I don't think you could let an opportunity like that pass by" part really got me.
Great movie. I love how their relationship turned to an almost father and son level at the end. and the mutual respect that developed for each other.....different worlds, but same job and same sense of service
"I don't think that you can let an opportunity like that pass by". Brilliant.
RIP and long live Rod Steiger (April 14, 1925 - July 9, 2002), aged 77
And
RIP and long live Sidney Poitier (February 20, 1927 - January 6, 2022), aged 94
You both will always be remembered as legends.
Very possibly one of the greatest scenes ever filmed. The feelings that were conveyed, without words from Sidney, were so subtle and sublime, said everything about this film
Rod Steiger in his element! What an actor! Sidney Poitier too. Their craft at its zenith! Both have this barely contained explosive energy, amazing.
Those two on screen together....holy crap! As good as it gets ...
Classic movie of all time
Rest in peace
Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger
Legends never die
I was lunching in Beverly Hills about 10 years ago with a renowned attorney and Mr. Poiter stopped by to greet my lunch date. I almost passed out. He is and was so elegant and classy.
In the heat of the nice 🙂 fabulous
Hell I would have !
Sidney was just pure class
So jealous
I was at UCLA Medical Center back in 2012 and I walked past Sidney Poitier in a hallway. I believe he was there for cancer treatment. I recognized him immediately. He was gracious enough, despite his suffering, to acknowledge me and smile as we passed each other.
This movie never gets old,top notch.
That's what I call acting... It's one of the best actor's duo I've ever seen, and not only in us cinema.
This ranks up there with some of the greatest movies of all time. The casting is incredible, the acting cosmic. If you've managed to miss seeing this movie, you need to watch.
I agree 100%. This movie shouldn't be confused with the TV series that it spawned. This movie stands alone as one of the greatest films ever.
Yeah, and no Lasers, starship cruisers, or massive explosions
Hondo3569 Agree have loved this movie for 50 years, everything is fabulous about it.
Now i want to watch it again!
@@respiratoryguy6477 I'm gonna do that right now!
Rod Steiger- Brilliant. Sidney Poitier was his usual cool self. They come no better.
I agree.
Couldn't agree more. Today you can never make this film with another actor.
Even Denzel Washington couldn't replace Poitier.. Rod Steiger is definitely irreplaceable..
A classic movie with unforgettable music!!!
@@barracuda7018 All the acting was great including the actor who played the pregnant girl's brother.
It is amazing to me how the name Sidney Poitier is never mentioned as one of the greatest artists who have ever lived. The Defiant Ones, Lillies Of The Field, A Raisin In The Sun, A Patch Of Blue, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, and this masterpiece, In The Heat Of The Night...can’t begin to imagine the amount of hate & threats that he dealt with from everywhere at a time when race relations reached its hottest of boiling points. This movie is Poitier & Rod Steiger at their very best, and it really is one of the greatest ever made.
1958: British Academy Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Defiant Ones
1958: Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin Film Festival) for The Defiant Ones[49]
1963: Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for Lilies of the Field
1963: Silver Bear for Best Actor (Berlin Film Festival) for Lilies of the Field[50]
1964: Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Lilies of the Field
1974: Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
1982: Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award[51]
1992: AFI Life Achievement Award
1995: Kennedy Center Honors
1997: Appointed non-resident Bahamian Ambassador to Japan
1999: SAG Life Achievement Award
2000: NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special for The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
2001: NAACP Image Award - Hall of Fame Award
2001 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album - Rick Harris, John Runnette (producers) and Sidney Poitier for The Measure of a Man
2002: Honorary Oscar - "For his extraordinary performances and unique presence on the screen and for representing the industry with dignity, style and intelligence"
2009: Presidential Medal of Freedom[52]
2011: Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute[53] honoring his life and careers
2016: BAFTA Fellowship
And what's nice is he continues to live! 92 at the time of these comments.
He never gets mentioned because everyone already knows what a great actor he was. Why gild the lily about it?
MR. SIDNEY POITIER, SIMPLY THE BEST!
Are you sure he had threats against him or just applying a stereotype?
He is 92 and still kicking god bless him.
I love him! Amazing actor.
Remember Steiger in The Pawnbroker? Brilliant!
Passed away January 2022
"I don't think you can let opportunity like that pass by".. I don't know how many times I watched that scene and every time I smile, one of the best in the movies history 😀
I saw this movie when it came out in 67 during the race riots. I couldn't fully appreciate how great this movie was at the time but I do remember enjoying it as a young teenager. Its one of those movies you can see over and over again because the acting and all the characters in the movie were so great.
you can see why Steiger won the academy award for best actor he was so dam good in the part
Gillespie was astute enough to recognize the "opportunity" to deliver the gut punch that would keep Tibbs in Sparta. The step he takes towards Tibbs while delivering that line is brilliant.
One thing that is always overlooked and never mentioned about this film is the amazing musical score by Quincy Jones, that along with the plot, the performances of Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger made this film the masterpiece it is.
Whaddya mean 'overlooked'? Who can forget the classic 'Fowl Owl On the Prowl'?
Such a great movie and such incredible chemistry between Gillespie and Tibbs. I keep watching these clips over and over.
Same
Me too!♥️
Steiger and Poitier at their finest. Great actors and a great movie.
Two geniuses at work .
I can't stop watching this ,great acting and story.
Truly one of the best films ever, outstanding performance from Rod Steiger and also Sydney Poitier, staggeringly intense, the gazing and intensity, and a fowl owl on the prowl wow
Well crafted, well acted, believable characters. So many good things about this movie. This is a particularly good scene. The sheriff shows a lot of insight into human, not just white, nature and Virgil suddenly is aware that a white southerner is actually looking at him as a man, with human pride who really does want an opportunity to show what he can do, like everyone else does.
Well said 👏.
No matter how many times I’ve seen this, it’s still fresh.
Why does Gillespie say :" No killer no factory?
@@jeffreykaufmann2867 the deceased buisness owners wife won't build a factory in Sparta if Gillespie doesn't catch her husbands killer. That's why Gillespie is almost begging Tibbs to provide his help.
@@marks_sparks1 Thanks. Have you seen In Cold Blood (1967). With Robert Blake and Scott Wilson? Scott Wilson is the White guy in prison who asks Tibbs: " Why are you dressed in a White Man's Clothes?"
What great acting.Two of the best of all time.
People just have to keep seeing these movies. Not for just the reminders of times gone past but for the sheer acting brilliance you rarely see now. Steiger....just damn!!!
I've been to this train station a couple times. They have a little museum inside with a section dedicated to the movie.
RIP, Mr. Tibbs.
Where is this train station located at?
One4 of THE all-time best scenes in cinema history . Both men, at their best !!
Hell of a line...I can't think of an actor that could have delivered it better than Mr.Steiger.
Nothing today could be made like this.This is a classic movie of it's time.Thank God.
This movie - Two of the greatest actors giving their best performances on the same screen in the same frame
It doesn't get any better
One of my favvvvvorite scenes! Exquisite acting of both! Timeless!
This scene tears my heart up. My dad and brothers. Shame to think the whole world didn't learn from this.
Director Norman Jewison had the idea to have Rod Steiger chew gum for the character of the chief. It's a cool touch--Gillespie chews faster when excited and slower when contemplative.
That stick of gum should have won an Oscar.
Steiger works it brilliantly, pausing to chew a bit to help a line or a moment breath. Setting the audience up for the next 'round' in their verbal/psychological sparring match. Amazing stuff.
Rip Wonderful actor.
I watched this in my early teens. Still…an amazing scene and an incomparable movie.
The late great Roland Kirk on that flute. Wonderful how Quincy's music is slow and simmering throughout, like the musical version of the temperature of the town.
Last of the great legends from a golden era of films
Two amazing actors who were a priviledge to watch.
What an AWESOME movie!!! Just the image of seeing them sitting on opposite sides of the Bench… was pure Gold. It the unspoken thing of all of us being that close…. Yet worlds apart!!! Whoever wrote or directed that movie, CAPTURED the essence of the world back then. Absolute GOLD!!
This is the best movie ever, you would never get tired seeing it over and over......great acting and great actors
How to play a scene where the other charactor is more handsome, taller and more intelligent. Brilliant Rod Steiger!
More educated, sure. More intelligent? Perhaps. But Gillespie is no dummy.
Rod Steiger isn't playing Gillespie, he IS Gillespie.
Sidney was great but with Steiger who was supernaturally excellent in that sheriff's role -- made for wonderful dialogue and characters. This film is up there with "To Kill A Mockingbird."
There are racists, there are good ole boys, but in Steiger's case he was a tough lawman first, and in his way, he was smart. He wanted justice and he knew Virgil's city experience would benefit his investigation. By the film's end -- they were somewhat friends. There's a lesson in that -- we have yet to learn. One of the greatest motion pictures ever made.
John LaStrada Sidney was the star attraction.
Sidney was the star attraction yes...but Steiger -- because of his intense acting reputation and A-list actor standing -- won the Academy Award for that film. Don't undermine Steiger's contribution.
As a pair -- the two were very good together. But Steiger was already a heavyweight in the movie business and despite the greatness of Sidney -- Rod had scenes that were stunning in this film. Completely against type. Steiger was no Southern good ole boy. He was born in New York State.
Steiger was coming off Dr. Zhivago & The Pawnbroker. Sidney was coming off To Sir, With Love. Sidney too, was an Academy Award winner -- TWO award-winning actors in lead roles? You don't get that too often San. Tickets were sold for that film because BOTH of them were featured.
John LaStrada , well said, sir. Very well said!
@@lastrada52 All true....
Every man is the product of his environment until he grows some and the lord saves him and changes his life!!!
Man, why don't they make movies like this any more? Movies with meaningful, elaborate stories and deep, complex characters, well written and well acted.
Because every generation that comes after the next gets just a little bit more dumber,sillier, simpler. Look at the kids and adults today are doing? Posting stuff on social media , ,Making dumb fake videos for the sake of clicks and views, the media we consume on a daily basis these days is terrible. Everything from music to movies to Tv shows everything has just got progressively worse, hell even great games are only made few and far between these days...theres no more quality in anything just rushing everything to get the next product out there to make more money, like every goddamn thing disney has put out since even before they started their streaming service. We Keep doing remakes of everything now, we are running out of ideas so we just recycle old content..the people who grew up in the 50s 60s 70s and 80s were a different breed of people. Take the ninja turtles movie for example, Can anyone honestly say any possible remage has been anything close to the original where it had real dope looking costumes piloted by such great talented Martial artists and just made everything CGI and digital...Nothing is authentic anymore..not even people, More people are so disengenious
The audience has changed
Yeah, it’s gotten dumber with no patience or curiosity
Wokery affects everything.
Costs of production. Salaries
That is the epitome of transcendental understanding, absolutely perfect and well placed
Poitier, one of the greatest actors ever in his own right, considered Spencer Tracey and Rod Steiger to be the finest actors he ever worked with. If you want to get an idea of Steiger's acting range, go watch On the Waterfront, Doctor Zhivago, Waterloo and Duck, You Sucker.
So true!
Sidney's character reminds so much of my Dad, this movie was unbelievably good!....
You feel the emotions of every character no matter what color they are!....
That was a busy year for Portier who also made “To Sir With Love” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. “
All outstanding movies. RIP to all actors in them who are no longer with us
An interesting detail is the train board in the background. The station was indeed on the GM&O main line between St. Louis and New Orleans, so the top two entries are legitimate. However, Sparta ILLINOIS was between St. Louis and Jackson, TN, so the bottom two entries are for filming purposes only. Although the train Tibbs boards to leave arrives southbound, shortly thereafter it is shown heading north with him aboard. The GM&O between St. Louis and Jackson did not have a lot longer to live in 1967. The GM&O was merged into the IC 5 years later and they began diverting traffic off of the GM&O because of steep grades and a lot of curvature south of Sparta. It is still there through town but ends a few miles to the north.
One of the best films I've ever watched..amazing performances..and a great soundtrack.
Steiger working that gum alone is oscar worthy...
I remember Oscar night.....the clip they showed after announcing Steiger's win for best actor was 1:55 to 2:30......love this flick, it won best picture, too.....love the ending, not drawn out or sappy, just a culmination of Gillespie's growing respect and fondness for Tibbs.....exquisite film making.....
Sidney Poitier was just an incredible actor.
Playing off of Rod; like Archie bunker/ Carol O'Connor-like. So unlikable, but is redeemed in the end. Such a complex story line!
Sidney Poitier still is an incredible actor, he's still among us
He still is
92 years young
And an incredible man!
"Just once I'm gonna hold my temper!"
That movie is just one great scene after another.
Steiger was absolutely brilliant.
Wonderful movie with brilliant acting by Rod Steiger and Sidney Poiter. I try to watch it at six monthly inttervals.
Even though the movie is supposed to take place in September (still hot down south), this scene was actually filmed in late Fall 1966 in Sparta, Illinois (see the colors of the leaves on the trees, and that is why Rod Steiger zips up his jacket). Sidney Poitier on the DVD said that day it was windy with the temperature in the upper 30s and both he and Rod Steiger were freezing their asses off.
Rod Steiger........God only made one of him and never will again.
I know somebody kinda acts like him Now take a guess🤠
I love Rod Steiger, a genius. Of course Sidney is brillant
A classic scene from a classic movie
You nailed it, the way the sheriff taunts him into staying, the look Virgil gives him back. That is acting.
it's not just that the dialogue is exceptional ,it's the enhancement to the dialogue with the masterful nuanced way it's delivered which just makes the whole scene fly into the impactful greatness not many movie scenes attain.
Very well said - it's exactly those attributes that make it stand out above and beyond.
Chief using psychology to persuade him to stay and help with solving the homicide. It worked. Excellent movie.
"I don't think you can let an opportunity like that pass by"!
Wow! Powerful! Excellent!
I must find time to watch this.
Steiger is perfect for the part.
An unforgetable movie. I was just 15 in 67 when i saw this in Athens in Greece. I think I saw it several times after that, because i was a fanatic cinephile as a teenager and often saw the films i liked, several times. The title of the film was changed to what translates as ''The Story Of A Crime''. The foreign movie importers were into the ridiculous habit of changing the original titles to whatever they thought would help selling more tickets, back in those days.
This acting and esp Steiger.. hard to find acting like this now.
Just once in my life I'm going to hold my temper Hollywood had made shit remakes so they better not do it to this classic!
Once you have done right, DON'T do again. Agreed man. Scotland UK
Oh my God. Oh please Hollywood. Please don't do it. Let a crowning achievement just stand there on its own, unregurgitated, perfect in every way, as it was and as it is.
@Andy Vidito But it had Caroll O'Connor.
No CGI, 3D, IMAX bullshit just a great story and two actors at their very best.
this scene is so damn good..the chemistry between steigerand portier is so good
Why can't Hollywood make movies like this anymore??
Great acting; picking up your cues and earning your pauses.
This movie is a timeless classic, and my favorite! I grew up watching Mr. Poitier's work. He is and will always be my all time favorite actor!
It's scenes like this (and this isn't the only one) that really set this movie a step beyond just great. It would have been SO EASY to just make it about race, but this scene is about character and human weaknesses, and it cuts both ways and it's brilliant. Just WAY ahead of its time.
Dear God this was a brilliant film.
The performances of Potier and Steiger are amazing.
The chemistry between them off the scale.
One of the Best movie's ever!!!!!!
RIP SIDNEY AND ROD!!!!
Such a fine movie. Just watched it for the third time...in the past 40 years. It is still as interesting and engaging as ever. What excellent acting by everyone. Sidney is just so suave and handsome!
The actors in this film were all equally as good, just some were given larger part's. One of the best films ever..
True. Even the actor who played Endicott acted great.
Sidney won Best Actor in 1967, Steiger in 1968. They both were nominated for Best Actor for this movie.
Two great actors. RIP ROD, RIP Sidney
Sidney Poitier is still alive. He's 94.
Love his humility asking him to please stay. A film you need to see is The Pawnbroker , b and w 1964/ 65. Steiger. Lumet directed.
Steiger should have won a Best Actor Oscar for the Pawnbroker too!
I'm from NC and lived in Mississippi in my early childhood. (my dad was stationed on the Naval Air base in Meridian) There is a difference in the accents and Steiger really got the Mississippi accent right.
When I found out Sidney Poitier and Rod Stieger where in this film I was sold.
This is a movie that you never get tired of watching. Two of the greatest actors of all times. And taking part during the civil rights era and they all played everything perfectly. Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger were both top of there game.
pure chemistry
Super Film schon gut 10x gesehen in meinen Leben (54) .
Stieger should of gotten the oscar ALONE just for the gum chewing, yellow shades, slip on boots, tilted angle police cap, and the improvised southern accent. Robert at 67
The best duo ever...
Nobody could have played this role better than these two greate actors .
Too bad we don't have great movies like this anymore.
RIP Hollywood.
Rod Steiger is fantastic , Sidney Poitier was great. 2 pros , RIP to both.
One of the best scenes, he says all that he says at the end, and it seems like Virgil should be offended but the truth is Virgil knows.... Gillespie is actually right.
Acting at its finest .... both men.
Rest In Peace, Sidney Poitier!
Rest In Peace Sidney Poitier.
He made the Bahamas proud!May he rest in peace...