Age: 57 years
GRS Rating: 5 of 5

Notable Cast:

Sidney Poitier Rod Steiger

Duration: 1 hr, 50 min
Infractions: None.

Comments: A businessman is found dead in an alley of Sparta, Mississippi. The police arrest the only man still awake--it's night. Virgil is a Northerner on his way home. The chief doesn't believe him, until Virgil proves that he's a homicide detective. He grudgingly agrees to investigate the murder.

This film makes a decent time capsule of the South in the 1960s. It's enjoyable and classic. Based on a novel.