in the heat of the night segment 5 delores purdy goes to get abortion with counter help from dine - brother and friends confront = rednecks shoot each other
@@dan2007kohn Beah did what she could with that role but the girl who played Sidney Poitier's bride was SUCH a ditz she ruined the whole film. I kept wondering why this distinguished U.N. official PHD etc. etc. would pair up with this ditz (she was Katherine Hepburn's niece).
Neat thing is that the store owner is the same lady that played his mother on "Guess Who's coming to Dinner" and of course he called her "Mama" in that movie also. Fine, high quality actors in excellent movies :)
I love the authenticity of this scene, car engines, flies buzzing, dogs barking, crickets rubbing their legs...🦗🦗🦗 A single light bulb 💡 lighting the store... You can feel that Southern heat... 🔥🥵 🌆 May Sir Sidney Poitier and Miss Beah Richards continue to RestInPeace... 💔🕊️😘💋❤️❤️❤️👏🏽👏🏽
+marantz7 Can we agree on of the best I mean the the 1960's gave us "The Misfits", "The Apartment", "Goldfinger", "Pshyco", "Buillit", "Thomas Crown Affair", as well as this film and Poitier two classics released the same year "To Sir With Love" and "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner"?
My favorite part of this scene is when he convinces Purdy to look in his sisters purse. Purdy is a repugnant racist but he’s not dumb enough to not see the logic in what Tibb’s is saying. When Tibbs tells Purdy that Ralph made a fool out of him it was the icing on the cake, he used Purdy’s own ego to save himself and get Ralph.
Interesting, but I think that in a real situation, just as Purdy arrived there, he would be greedy to ask to his sister what she was doing too late at night away from home together with a strange. It would be a total mess.
Everyone has standards. All of Purdy's rage was over his sister getting pregnant and others knowing about it, especially in such a small community. He was furious about Virgil hearing Deloris' account more than anything, and Virgil directing Purdy's attention to Ralph was sharp, too. Ralph was literally holding the smoking gun, right in front of a posse who all paused at the same time to think with Purdy. Racism is despicable, but rape is something else entirely and all the rednecks in this scene agreed on that. And if Ralph knocked-up one girl under-age, what was his case for not doing the same to somebody else?
Bea Richards is such a great actress. She plays the abortionist in this scene but also appeared as Sidney Poitier's mother in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" released the same year as "In the Heat of the Night". She has such brilliant range as an actress, as does Rod Steiger as an actor. I mean he went from a Russian count in "Doctor Zhivago" just two years before playing the small town Southern sheriff in this film.
Great is a term that is thrown around nowadays, but she truly was. "People round here call me Mama Caleba." Watching this scene between to greats is incredible.
I had to come back and watch this. Growing up in the Deep South, I can say that that store is spot on for small rural establishments. Even the smell came back to me.
Donkey Slayer Rural Ill. as Sidney wanted no part of the south at such a dangerous time , with the exception of the brief scene of the two stars driving through a cotton field which was filmed in Tenn.
Mama's laugh at 3:12 is delicious! " That cracker?!? " Perfect! The hundred dollars for Mama's abortion would be around $840. today. About two weeks salary back then.
@@marantz7783 Sad truth for pro- life believers, but the busiest and most enthusiastic abortionist of all eternity is none other than God itself who, as the data shows, decides daily that not all human life is precious or worthy of his protection. In the year 2000, 19 million Godly abortions, aka “miscarriages”, took place worldwide. About 80% of miscarriages occur in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy (the first trimester). The underlying cause in about half of cases involves chromosomal abnormalities which usually occur when there is an error in cell division-God is not inerrant after all. These Godly abortions approximate to one in every 10 pregnancies. In developing countries like Latin America and the Caribbean alone, it is estimated that 3.7 million Godly abortions take place each year. Each year also finds Africa *(The Most Religious Part Of World),* with the highest ratio- 4.2 million Godly abortions are estimated to take place; and that ratio is 22 per 1,000 women. This estimates to one Godly abortion per seven live births. *Worse yet, it is unknown just how many fertilized eggs never even attach to the wall and are flushed out of a woman’s body like some kind of toxic waste.* Godly abortions are also common among *parous* (having given birth one or more times.) women; 43% of parous women report having experienced one or more first trimester Godly abortions, rising to 81% among women with 11 or more living children. One in every 17 parous women has had three or more Godly abortions. *A slim 60% chance of success is no magical miraculous moment that life begins.* Clearly it is undeniable; God does not always vote for life as miscarriage and stillbirth have made mourners of as many women as elective abortion has, and so *He must also condone earthly abortions too* since He consistently *fails* to prevent any of them from happening.
The best actors don't act they just act naturally. Imagine how many people are in that room when filming and a good actor have to ignore everyone and everything imagine the amount of control
Beah Richards, great actor, starred alongside Sydney Poitier in both this film and Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, which were released within a year of each other.
Anthony James. Monster character actor. He is retired from acting. Does occasional voice-over work. He Paints and has had his work shown in galleries in NY and SF. I think he has had a book of his artwork published.
I like how after an entire movie of people reacting to Virgil with microaggressions, her entire body language upon meeting him is "Oh damn, look at *this* tall drink of water!"
There is a mobile home there now. The grocery store was owned by Joe DeAngelo and had closed before the movie was made. Even so, they had to give it a more run down appearance for the movie. You can read about this in "Searching for Sparta" available on lulu.com.
I like Packy. He is willing to wait because he knows Tibbs is in a precarious situation. His friend, the leftie told him he's a good man. Tibbs told him to leave out of a mutual care.
Seeing all this shooting going on... When Tibbs picked up the gun it was ohhh shit look out he got a gun . They seemed more afraid a black man had a gun. Even though he was an officer I didn't see him carry a gun in this movie. I would say the only weapon he had was his Brain. Big Ups Sid
I find it strange that Virgil Tibbs as a police officer (and a high ranking one at that) does not carry a pistol, if not for anything else, to defend himself if he is attacked like it happens twice in the plot.
In one of the newspaper articles written during the filming of the movie, it was erroneously reported that Beah Richards was playing the role Sidney Poitier's mother. I guess the reporter made an assumption based on Richards' character being named Mama Caleba.
Can anyone tell me where Mama's accent is from? I've seen this film so many times but it's wonderful seeing each scene in isolation. Thanks for posting.
All right! Now that you've got me addicked to this movie i haven't seen in 40 years can you please download Segment #6 ? Lol. I'm ready for more of Virgil Thibbs. Thanks!
A brilliant movie with top acting showing the Difference between the 2 races towards each other and at the end getting together but there's one problem.... the abortionist is aghast at the murder when Sydney mentions it.Something she practices.
@Curmudgeon Here's the big change. That act was not in sync with the rest of society, and they all got life in prison. But you actually Love that lynching.
