| They Call Me Mister Tibbs! | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Gordon Douglas |
| Screenplay by | Alan Trustman James R. Webb |
| Story by | Alan Trustman |
| Produced by | Herbert Hirschman |
| Starring | Sidney Poitier Martin Landau Barbara McNair Anthony Zerbe |
| Cinematography | Gerald Perry Finnerman |
| Edited by | Bud Molin Irving Rosenblum (assistant editor) |
| Music by | Quincy Jones |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $2,350,000 (US/Canada rentals)[1] |
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! is a 1970 American DeLuxe Color crime drama film directed by Gordon Douglas. The second installment in a trilogy, the release was preceded by In the Heat of the Night (1967) and followed by The Organization (1971). The film's title was taken from a line in the first film.[2][3]
Sidney Poitier reprised his role of police detective Virgil Tibbs, though in this sequel, Tibbs is working for the San Francisco Police rather than the Philadelphia Police (as in the original film) or the Pasadena Police (as in the novels).
- ^ "Big Rental Films of 1970", Variety, 6 January 1971 p 11
- ^ Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and ... Abbe A. Debolt, James S. Baugess - 2011 Page 311 "Tibbs and Gillespie have moved from the racially charged scene in which Poitier utters the film's iconic line "They call me Mister Tibbs ... the role of "Mister Tibbs" in They Call Me MISTER Tibbs (1970) and The Organization (1971), was not nominated."
- ^ I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History 2008 -- Page 313 "We had done reasonably well with They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! and we still had another option for a Virgil Tibbs picture with Sidney Poitier."