African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger), the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi.
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his ...
With the protection of 88 acres of land in Monroe County in April, Mississippi Valley Conservancy now protects more than 21,000 acres in its efforts to conserve native habitat, farmland and scenic ...