in the heat of the night

In alot of ways this is the stagecoach of it's day. Being that it was one of the first films to have a black detective and a white kinda racist detective together. But neither were the last with tons of imatators.This hurt Stagecoach as much as it did with in the heat of the night.
This film is still good and so is stagecoach but they seem a lot more cliched. You know there not but it's not as fun.
The film itself is awesome and all though I somewhat disagree with it being on a list of the 100 best american films as it was recently. It is certainly still a great movie. A score by Quincy Jones and great performances by both of the leads. Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger both are incredible and show what range both of them have. Espically Steiger who some how tricked the studio into making a character actor into a leading man. I have never seen a movie with Rod Steiger and thought Rod Steiger I always think of the character. Poitier is also amazing and seeing this film rather then guess whos coming to dinner shows you why people gave a fuck about him in the first place. and how influencal he is. I could name countless actors who use stuff he did.
All in all this a first class classic worth checking out and really there is every reason to also it was directed by Norman Jewison.


This was on the new afi list at 75. However it as not on the old one.

I'm currently two films away from having seen all the new list. and one film away from seeing all of the old list those films are

a night at the opera

Intolerance

also i still have not seen the jazz singer but now i think i will because i am three films away. the only thing standing in my way is the second season of the wire but after that i am coo.