In the Heat of the Night 1967

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: A film that has the look and sound of actuality and the pounding pulse of truth. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: A decent piece of do-good cinema. Read more

Wanda Hale, New York Daily News: It's a pleasure, all too rare, to watch two splendid actors pitted against each other with equal force such as Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger in the exceptional murder mystery, In the Heat of the Night. Read more

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: Social importance aside, In the Heat of the Night works as a buddy film and as a tense thriller. Read more

TIME Magazine: No deep solutions are suggested in this subtle and meticulously observed study. Yet Director Norman Jewison has used his camera to extract a cer tain rough-cut beauty from each protagonist. Read more

Paul Taylor, Time Out: Oozes sufficient Southern sweat and features enough admirably crumpled character faces to make up for its over-strident liberal rhetoric. Read more

A.D. Murphy, Variety: An excellent Sidney Poitier performance, and an outstanding one by Rod Steiger, overcome some noteworthy flaws to make In The Heat of the Night an absorbing contemporary murder drama. Read more