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In the Heat of the Night (1967) Compton's diner

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Compton's diner was located here. The movie opens with Warren Oates as Sam Wood drinking a coke talking with Anthony James as Ralph. In a later scene Warren Oates as Sam Wood, Rod Steiger as Gillespie, and Sidney Poitier as Virgil Tibbs show up to go over the route Wood took the night of the murder. But Ralph refuses to serve Tibbs.

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In the Heat of the Night (film)
In the Heat of the Night is a 1967 American mystery drama film directed by Norman Jewison. It is based on John Ball's 1965 novel of the same name and tells the story of Virgil Tibbs, a black police detective from Philadelphia, who becomes involved in a murder investigation in a small town in Mississippi. It stars Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, and was produced by Walter Mirisch. The screenplay was by Stirling Silliphant.

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