About this episode
The tenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1967 features the Academy Awards Best Picture winner, Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night . Directed by Norman Jewison from a script by Stirling Silliphant (based on the novel by John Ball) and starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates and Lee Grant, In the Heat of the Night was nominated for seven Oscars and won five, including Best Picture. The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Richard Schickel in Life magazine, John Mahoney in The Hollywood Reporter ( https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/heat-night-review-1967-movie-1026024/ ), and Andrew Sarris in the Village Voice . Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1967 installment, featuring our producer David Rosen’s pick, Mel Brooks’ The Producers .