Sidney Poitier Tribute & In The Heat of the Night
The Cine-Files
Steve Morris & John Rocha
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2022
⏱️ 124 minutes
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To say that Sidney Poitier was a towering figure not only in Hollywood but in the very fabric of our country is a vast understatement. At one time he wasn't simply the most important African American movie star. He was the only African American movie star. John and Steve take some time to talk about his life and his incredible career before re-releasing their conversation on one of his most important films, In the Heat of the Night.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to a very special tribute to Sidney Platae on the cinephiles. |
| 0:12.8 | My name is Steve Morris. |
| 0:13.8 | I'm a filmmaker and directing instructor in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:17.1 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:18.1 | My name is John Roca. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm a writer, producer, host, voice or artist here in co-host of The Cinephiles and, you |
| 0:24.5 | know, just sad that we are back doing another tribute, Steve, for another great artist |
| 0:30.3 | and, unfortunately, that's part of doing this show, my man. |
| 0:34.7 | It certainly is. |
| 0:35.7 | And, you know, if we're going to honor someone, certainly Sidney Platae deserves more than |
| 0:41.5 | one tribute, which is what we're going to do. |
| 0:43.1 | So today, we're going to kind of talk about his life as an introduction and we're re-releasing |
| 0:48.2 | our episode on In the Heat of the Night, which was from way back in 2017. |
| 0:53.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:54.5 | And it actually, we did it right around the time of Charlottesville. |
| 0:59.7 | So there was certainly issues that related to In the Heat of the Night when we recorded |
| 1:03.6 | this thing. |
| 1:04.6 | One thing that's going to be but weird is we did do a little bit of biographical material |
| 1:09.7 | on Sidney Platae in that episode. |
| 1:11.8 | So a little bit of this will be repeated, but this is an opportunity to go much deeper. |
| 1:17.2 | I just want to start, John, with how did you first come to Sidney Platae? |
| 1:20.4 | Do you know what your first memories of him are? |
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