Irish Film Institute -FEAST YOUR EYES: IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

FEAST YOUR EYES: IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

Director: NORMAN JEWISON

109 mins, USA, 1967, Digital


This film screened 29th November 2016.

Our monthly pairing of a new release and a specially devised main course menu will be Norman Jewison’s 1967 classic In the Heat of the Night, followed by a Deep South feast inspired by the film in the IFI Café Bar.

The inimitable Sidney Poitier plays Virgil Tibbs, arrested for murder at the film’s outset for no other reason than the colour of his skin. When Police Chief Bill Gillespie, played by Rod Steiger, discovers Tibbs is a homicide detective passing through on his way home to Philadelphia, he not only drops the charges but compels him to stay in town to help him and his outfit of incompetent officers find the culprit.

See also the In The Heat of the Night film page for details of regular screenings from Friday November 25th

Menu 

Choice of Seafood, Chicken or Vegetarian Jambalaya.

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