In The Heat Of The Night (Re-Release)

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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In honor of Sidney Poitier's passing, Unspooled is re-releasing this episode from the Unspooled archives. We'll be back with a new episode this Thursday. Amy & Paul take a trip down South for 1967's racially charged police thriller In The Heat Of The Night! They celebrate the excellent soundtrack, scrutinize how well the film holds up as a procedural, and take a close look at Sidney Poitier's incredible road to Hollywood. Plus: Two interviews this week, with Pod Save The People's DeRay Mckesson on the value of art as activism, and Lee Grant, who plays Mrs. Colbert, reflecting on her trailblazing career as an actor and director.

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0:00.0	We are re-releasing in the heat of the night today to celebrate and remember Sidney
0:26.7	Pottie, who passed away at 94 last week in the Bahamas. Sidney Pottie was the first black
0:32.8	performer to win the Academy Award for Best Actor in the Leads of the Field and in 1967 he was in
0:38.7	three of the top grossing pictures of all time. That was to Sir with Love, guess it's coming to dinner
0:45.4	in today's film In the Hew of the Night. So, without any further ado, here is our re-release.
1:06.4	Ray Charles and that is an intro song if I have ever heard one. Oh my goodness,
1:11.4	the music in this is great. The music was kind of put together by Quincy Jones in this movie
1:17.2	and it's got a great sound. This movie has got a great look. I didn't know what to expect. We both
1:23.6	didn't see it and it's a very patient movie but I just love this cinematography in this movie too.
1:30.8	It really just pulls you in the way that the colors are popping and you feel the heat, you feel
1:38.0	that southern town and such a clean, clear way right from the very beginning when they're in that
1:43.5	and that diner and it just it is a really good representation of a southern town at this time
1:50.9	in the United States. And it has that feeling of, you know, I did my time in Norman Oklahoma
1:56.3	and the scariest thing to me in Norman, Oklahoma was, you know, if I got out of where I worked at
2:00.0	I worked at the library. Oh my god, you're real Mary. And if I got off of work at two o'clock
2:04.6	when the library closed, you'd walk home and the streets would look like this. They'd be, wait,
2:08.1	it closed at two in the morning. The library, our library closed at two in the morning. What?
2:12.1	I know. But you get off at two in the morning and the streets are absolutely empty in the same way
2:17.4	this movie is. And to me, that's always been scarier than the city. You know what I'm
2:22.3	talking about? Oklahoma from the South to a city. Everybody was like, aren't you terrified?
2:26.1	And like there are people on the streets at night. I find that comforting. I find empty streets
2:30.4	really scary. That opening remind me very much of the beginning of Beverly Hills Cop, the first one
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