I nattens hetta

Mid 60s America was characterized by race riots. Dr King and Malcolm X took their own people under their wings in order to, in their own way, appropriate to themselves the right to fly, while the South was shook by racists like George Wallace and George Lincoln Rockwell. It was a simmering cauldron. Hollywood was not reluctant to follow developments, quite the contrary. The black man above all others was Sidney Poitier - really the only one who seized his legitimate privileges. Poitier made 20 films before he received a role that did not question the colour of his skin! Similar films are made today, the race problem is far from exhausted, but there is a particular tension in Norman Jewison's minor classic. In 1967 this was still something new. Sticky, oppressive, lots of flies and with Warren Oates as vice-sheriff. You can still feel the heat of the night from Sparta, Mississippi, even in Stockholm in November, 1996. The film did not change the world, but Steiger won an Oscar - beating among others Spencer Tracy's last role in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner- and nobody sings the theme song like Ray Charles, even if many people have tried.

Premiärstatus
–: Orig. titel
In the Heat of the Night: Medverkande
Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates: Producent
Walter Mirisch: Manus
Stirling Silliphant, based on the novel by John Ball: Foto
Haskell Wexler: Musik
Quincy Jones: Talat språk
English