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Adaptations cinématographiques. Feature films. Fiction films. Films de fiction. Films historiques. Video recordings for people with visual disabilities. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. videorecording Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives. Vidéos pour personnes handicapées visuelles.Filter By Subjects
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Adaptations cinématographiques. Feature films. Fiction films. Films de fiction. Films historiques. Video recordings for people with visual disabilities. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. videorecording Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives. Vidéos pour personnes handicapées visuelles.Summary: Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY INSummary: In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2024
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUDSummary: In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024