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FDP Forum / Moe's Tavern (_8^(I) / In The Heat of The Night - yes the movie

whall Contributing Member ****** Merry-Land 664 Neighbor of the Beast	Jul 29th, 2010 07:12 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic We watched it last night with our kids. I had never seen the whole movie before. What a good film. I love how Rod Steiger's character goes back and forth with how he treats and interacts with Sidney Poitier. Having spent some time in the deep South many years ago, some of it (while exaggerated) was educational for my kids to see. They couldn't believ that people acted like that.
JimmySee Contributing Member ********** ********** ********** ********** We're last exit on I-10 west before PCH	Jul 29th, 2010 07:42 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic Also recommended -- "Mississippi Burning" with Gene Hackman.
SS2 Contributing Member ** Alexandria, Virginia	Jul 29th, 2010 08:16 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic "They couldn't believ that people acted like that." I grew up in southern VA (I've got 13 years on you)... I don't think there was much exaggeration on some attitudes. I remember segregated schools, water fountains, rest rooms, restaurants and stores. KKK marches, rallies were held within hearing distance from our house, you could see the illumination from the fires in the sky and burned crosses (this was into '67 when we moved). The public schools didn't open in 1963 because they refused to intregate. I was fortunate to go to a Catholic school, wasn't raised in the hate and my parents got us out of that area. (This message was last edited by SS2 at 08:20 PM, Jul 29th, 2010)
BbendFender Contributing Member *** Texas It ain't the arrow, it's the Indian!	Jul 29th, 2010 08:26 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic A great movie. I've seen it several times. I remember all the stuff you guys mention.
Belgarath Contributing Member ****** SW FL	Jul 29th, 2010 09:10 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic I'm a few years behind SS2 and Bbend and don't remember much segregation in WV. I do remember the klan, but they were more at odds with the CWP in the late '70s. I remember a Mayday parade in Charleston that was pretty tense for the cops. They ranged from regular uniformed city police to state troopers with shotguns and Sherriff;s Deouties with ARs. A few city cops I recognized were wearing Army fatigues and boots with no insignia other than a black and olive American flag patch on the shoulder and carrying riot batons. Nothing happened, but a few weeks earlier there had been shootings in Greensboro, NC at a CWP rally when the Klan and Nazis opened fire on them. I also remember the Klan stopping people at intersections and asking for donations and the CWP outside of places like K-Mart asking people to sign petitions to get some activist or other released from prison. The only place I've ever seen a segregationist sign was in Jackson, MI. A restaurant had a sign in the window that said "We do not cater to colored people." That was in the early '80s. The old train station in Punta Gorda is now a museum and has the "Colored" signs up for the fountain and restroom.
elwood1451 Contributing Member ** usa	Jul 29th, 2010 10:09 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic One of the best movies ever, IMHO.
Gato Contributing Member ******** USA	Jul 30th, 2010 07:29 AM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic "They call me MISTER Tibbs!"
Texican Contributing Member ********** Cypress, TX I engineer train wrecks @ FDP Jams	Jul 30th, 2010 08:32 AM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic "I got the motive which is money and the body which is dead."
whall Contributing Member ****** Merry-Land 664 Neighbor of the Beast	Jul 31st, 2010 07:55 AM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic I especially like how Virgil Tibbs also learned some things about himself.
DiploStrat Contributing Member ********** ******* Bangui, CAR Down by the (Oubangui) River	Jul 31st, 2010 12:08 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic There was a television spin off, which wasn't bad either. Perhaps a bit "feel good," but then, I like to feel good. DiploStrat ;-)
Texican Contributing Member ********** Cypress, TX I engineer train wrecks @ FDP Jams	Jul 31st, 2010 05:42 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic "There was a television spin off, which wasn't bad either." Mama Texican who grew up in Southern Mississippi like the TV show too. However, she said that she would never live in Sparta, MS. Too much crime for such a small town. :^)
Nawlins Dawg Contributing Member *** N.O.,LA USA There's no place like tone	Jul 31st, 2010 05:54 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic What Elwood says +1
John34 Contributing Member ********* Austin,Texas Texas says it all! Call me 34	Jul 31st, 2010 05:59 PM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic This is a very good movie! We lived in Goldsboro N.C when this movie came out. It is very realistic.
mcoonan Contributing Member ****** hardly a ripple	Aug 1st, 2010 01:38 AM   Edit   Profile   Print Topic   Search Topic "I grew up in southern VA (I've got 13 years on you)... I don't think there was much exaggeration on some attitudes." +1. I grew up in Philly, South Jersey, and Chicago, but went to school in SC for a year (1967-68), and traveled elsewhere in the deep south before then. I saw no exaggeration in the film. Hell, even in NJ, blacks were segregated to two areas (the "Lawns" and the "Acres") of the little college town I lived in, most lived in squalor, and black kids attended separate schools from whites until the early 60s when busing facilitated implementation of Brown vs Board of Education.

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