In the Heat of the Night (film)

"Now listen, hear me good, Mama. Please. Don't make me have to send you to jail... There's white time in jail and there's colored time in jail. The worst kind of time you can do is colored time."

"I got the motive which is murder and the body which is dead!"

"They call me Mister Tibbs!"

"They got a murder on their hands... they don't know what to do with it."

"They're going to pin something on that smart cop from Philadelphia... maybe a medal... maybe a murder!"

"Sidney Poitier - Detective Virgil Tibbs"

"Rod Steiger - Police Chief Bill Gillespie"

"Warren Oates - Sergeant (Patrolman) Sam Wood"

"Lee Grant - Mrs. Leslie Colbert"

"Larry Gates - Eric Endicott"

"James Patterson - Lloyd Purdy (Delores's brother)"

"William Schallert - Mayor Webb Schubert"

"Beah Richards - Mama Caleba (Mrs. Bellamy)"

"Peter Whitney - CPL. George Courtney"

"Kermit Murdock - H.E. Henderson (banker)"

"Larry D. Mann - Watkins"

"Quentin Dean - Delores Purdy"

"Anthony James - Ralph Henshaw (diner counterman)"

"Arthur Malet - Ted Ulam (mortician)"

"Scott Wilson - Harvey Oberst (murder suspect)"

"Matt Clark - Packy Harrison"

"Eldon Quick - Charlie Hawthorne (photographer)"

"Harry Dean Stanton- policeman"

"Jester Hairston - Henry (Endicott's butler)"