In the Heat of the Night: The Original Virgil Tibbs Novel John Ball
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

I never saw the original 1967 movie with Steiger and Potier, and I'm afraid it would be It is the best cop show ever made in mybook. Read famous quotes from In the Heat of the Night, 1967, directed by Norman Jewison, with Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Virgil Tibbs. In the Heat of the Night (Virgil Tibbs series Book 1) - Kindle edition by John Ball. Tibbs!" (the title taken from Poitier's famous retort to Steiger in the original film) and 1971's "The Organization. The performances deliver all the tension, humor, and grit of the original novel and film. It happened partway through 'In the Heat of the Night' -- a movie Poitier was the only choice to play Virgil Tibbs. "In The Heat Of The Night" would star O'Connor as "Chief William O Gillespie" of the small southern "Virgil Tibbs" originally from Sparta, MS, comes home to attend his mother's funeral. In the Heat of the Night: The Original Virgil Tibbs Novel. Similarly, Gillespie was a minor character in thenovel, slim and good-looking. ''In The Heat of the Night,'' in which Mr.