Hi, this is John. This week on the Synophiles, Steve and I break down 1967's in the heat of the night,

a film that won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Rod Steiger.

Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier deliver career-defining performances in this film

directed by Norman Jusen, a film that came out exploring race relations during a time in our

country when the civil rights movement was still very much in its prime. And

unfortunately the stories and the themes of this movie still echo in our society 50 years later when you look at the incidents at Charlesville, Virginia over this past weekend.

It's a film that requires your attention and your respect and

Steve and I are honored to break it down this week on the cinnophiles in the heat of

the night. Join us.

Hi everyone, so today we're doing in the heat of the night and before we've gone into the

episode, you know, many of you know that we record these episodes weeks or even months in advance and

sometimes that has to do with just our complicated scheduling and sometimes it has to do

with movies that seem appropriate to a certain time and and so when we

recorded in the heat of the night we definitely knew that it was topical,

and it's the 50th anniversary of the film.

But we did know just how topical, and as I was editing the film yesterday,

Charlottesville actually came up, and this is long before any of the stuff that's happened over the weekend and John brought it up and I was like

And I wanted to just explain sort of what happened John what's your connection to Charlottesville? Yeah, you'll hear this as the later on in the podcast that I mentioned my connection to Charlottesville and I mentioned my connection to who is a city manager there Maurice Jones and some of you who watched the coverage over the weekend of Charlottesville

You saw Maurice come up on CNN and speak about what had happened there.

He was, like I said, he's a city manager there, but I moved to Charlottesville because Maurice and I were

best friend, we've been best friends since high school. I was best man at his

wedding. We've known each other since what 1996 I guess 95 96 and we actually met on a

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