African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
Sidney Poitier
Rod Steiger
Warren Oates
Peter Whitney
Lee Grant
Anthony James
William Schallert
Scott Wilson
Larry Gates
James Patterson
Quentin Dean
Kermit Murdock
Larry D. Mann
Matt Clark
Beah Richards
Arthur Malet
Fred Stewart
Timothy Scott
William Watson
Eldon Quick
Jester Hairston
Stuart Nisbet
Khalil Bezaleel
Peter Masterson
Phil Adams
Nikita Knatz
Sam Reese
Jack Teter
Alan Oppenheimer
Clegg Hoyt
Buzz Barton