In the Heat of the Night: Difference between revisions

* [[Heat Wave]]: In the movie. It's summer in Mississippi, after all.

* [[The Jimmy Hart Version]]: Jewison wanted the song on the jukebox to be "Li'l Red Riding Hood" by Sam The Sham & The Pharoahs, but they couldn't get the rights (licensing pop songs for movies was almost unheard of in 1967), so the film's composers (Quincy Jones, Alan & Marilyn Bergman) wrote the new but very similar "Foul Owl On The Prowl" for the diner scene.

* [[Noble Bigot with a Badge]]: Gillespie starts out as one. By the end of the movie, he can hardly even be called a bigot.

** Tibbs briefly slips into this territory for a moment as well, enraged from being slapped by a plantation owner:

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