African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger), the racist police chief of tiny Sparta,…
In the middle of Phoebe Ann Naylor's nuptials to Don Andrea Baldazar (Alain Delon), a U.S. Cavalry unit arrives and instigates a fight, ending in the death of Yancey Cottle (Stuart Anderson). The…