Movie Club | “In the Heat of the Night”

The Southeast Steuben County Library’s Movie Club is a way for folks who love movies to connect and discuss a selected movie each month. Amelia F.H Cueva will select movies that are either in the Library collection, and/or easily accessible for streaming free, and will lead a group conversation on the 3rd Thursday of the month from 5:30-6:30pm. Light refreshments provided. No sign up required, just show up.
Important: Please watch the movie ahead of time. Movie Club is a discussion group only.

The March movie: In the Heat of the Night, directed by Norman Jewison, from a screenplay by Sterling Silliphant, and starring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Lee Grant and Warren Oates.
From the NYTimes review by Bosley Crowther when the film was released in 1967: “The hot surge of racial hate and prejudice that is so evident and critical now in so many places in this country, not alone in the traditional area of the Deep South, is fictionally isolated in any ugly little Mississippi town in the new film, In the Heat of the Night, which opened at the Capitol and the 86th Street East yesterday. (…)Norman Jewison has taken a hard, outspoken script, prepared by Stirling Silliphant from an undistinguished novel by John Ball, and, with stinging performances contributed by Rod Steiger as the chief of police and Sidney Poitier as the detective, he has turned it into a film that has the look and sound of actuality and the pounding pulse of truth.”
You can watch the film trailer here.

This film can be streamed for free with ads on YouTube and PLEX. There are also 5 copies of the DVD available to be checked out in the library system (none at Corning; however, it can be put on hold at another lIbrary and delivered to Corning). It had been available for free with no ads on Kanopy and Hoopla, but has been removed since this movie was selected.

Upcoming Films:
May 21: Raging Bull