Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant. Academy Award®-winning drama about a black Philadelphia detective who is wrongfully arrested for murder in Sparta, Mississippi, a small Southern town. Once he is cleared of the charges, he is asked to stay and solve the case. Based on the novel by John Ball. Director Norman Jewison’s biting social commentary is spliced into this racially-charged, epic stand-off between the hostile citizens and the African-American cop. 1967/color/110 min/NR/widescreen.