#sidney poitier

[moviecriticseanpatrick-blog]

Stir Crazy: The Comic Alchemy of Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder

How a mismatched pair became one of the most bankable comedy duos of the 1980s

[penniesforthestorm]

On In the Heat of the Night (1967)

One of my longer efforts, but it had been nagging at me that I'd never written anything of substance on one of my absolute all-time favorites. As always, this is not paywalled, and does not require a Medium membership to access.

[lindadarnell]

Sidney Poitier and Diahann Carroll PARIS BLUES 1961 | Martin Ritt

[classicfilmsource]

Sidney Poitier and Diahann Carroll PARIS BLUES 1961 | Martin Ritt

[hiddenbyleaves]

The Defiant Ones (Stanley Kramer, 1958)

[nine-frames]

"You're just gonna stay here and show us all."

In the Heat of the Night, 1967.

Dir. Norman Jewison | Writ. Stirling Silliphant, based on a novel by John Ball | DOP Haskell Wexler

[sophisticated-dorkk]

"Why is it that you guys are hounds for bad news? It seems to me that at this moment, this day, you could ask me many questions about many positive and wonderful things that are happening in this country but we gather here to pay court to sensationalism, we gather here to pay court to negativism. You guys have a job to do, uh I'm a relatively intelligent man. There are many aspects to my personality that you can explore. I think uh very constructively but you sit here and ask me such one dimensional questions about a very tiny area of our lives. You ask me questions that fall continually within the negroness of my life. You ask me questions that pertain to the narrow scope of the summer riots. I am artist, man, american, contemporary. I am an awful lot of things. So I wish you would uh pay me the respect due and not simply ask me about those things."

[citizenscreen]

Norman Jewison’s IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT hit theaters on August 2, 1967.