One of those rare films that strikes all the right chords. Sidney Poitier plays a detective who happens into a Mississippi town reeling from a recent homicide and sticks around to solve the crime. That's just the base coat, though. It's a race drama in which the acting, screenwriting, heck even the cinematography, are so finely tuned that you want to clap every time a scene has ended. I suppose it's another film that could have been done as a play, but the camera does great things with the material. I particularly liked the scenes in the police chief's office. The camera treats each "victim" who ends up in there differently.
year: 1967
length: 109 min.
rating: 4.0
IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061811/combined
Thursday, February 13, 2003
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