There's white time in jail and there's colored time in jail. The worst kind of time you can do is colored time.

In the Heat of the Night

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Topic

Prison Black and white

Speaker

Det. Virgil Tibbs

Actor

Sidney Poitier

Source

In the Heat of the Night

Medium

Film

Genre

Mystery (film) Drama (film) Mystery Drama

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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Citation

In the Heat of the Night. Directed by Norman Jewison. The Mirisch Corporation, 1967.

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