Zehn Stunden Zeit für Virgil Tibbs (1970)

Zehn Stunden Zeit für Virgil Tibbs: Directed by Gordon Douglas. With Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair, Anthony Zerbe. In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.

“Ostensibly a sequel to In The Heat Of The Night, but nothing like it. In The Heat Of The Night was a great, groundbreaking, mirror-to-the- times movie. It showcased the racial prejudices and restrictions that still existed in the US, and showed, to a degree, how these could be overcome. While on the surface it was a crime-drama, it was a lot more than that. It was a social commentary, and a brilliant one.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThey Call Me Mister Tibbs is purely a crime-drama, and a fairly average one at that. The only thing this movie and In The Heat Of The Night have in common is the character Virgil Tibbs, played on both occasions by Sidney Poitier. There is no social commentary. It is just a common- or-garden whodunnit.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSome of the crime drama is padded with domestic scenes from Tibbsu0026#39; homelife, but these seem trite and lame.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eReally does not do any justice to In The Heat Of The Night.”