gina-95739
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When a Northern businessman building a factory in a rural Southern town that needs jobs winds up dead, the pressure is on to find out who murdered him or risk losing the factory. The only man who has the skills to solve the crime is also the accused, played by Sidney Poitier, a black man apprehended at the local train station whose only crime is passing through the town.
It seems the burly cracker Chief of Police played by Rod Steiger has his man until the dead man's wife steps in and insists Virgil (Poitier), an expert homicide detective from Philadelphia, be kept on the case or else she's pulling the factory from the town.
The Chief and Virgil will have to team up to solve the case in a town that's against the both of them - one because he's a race traitor, the other because he's an uppity black man who doesn't know his place and poking his head into matters that are none of his concern.
It's a genius script, the performances unreal, and the direction masterfully gets the best out of both.
It seems the burly cracker Chief of Police played by Rod Steiger has his man until the dead man's wife steps in and insists Virgil (Poitier), an expert homicide detective from Philadelphia, be kept on the case or else she's pulling the factory from the town.
The Chief and Virgil will have to team up to solve the case in a town that's against the both of them - one because he's a race traitor, the other because he's an uppity black man who doesn't know his place and poking his head into matters that are none of his concern.
It's a genius script, the performances unreal, and the direction masterfully gets the best out of both.
... the sound design is SO IRRITATING and distracting. I'm in the film industry and I would have sent this back. It lacks mature choices.
This is a documentary not an episode of CSI. These are real people and a viewer knows when to feel and what to feel. We don't need a sound track that competes. We need to hear the PEOPLE and the INFORMATION.
I had to mute the sound to just get through it after a point. Beverly Lynn Smith, RIP.
This is a documentary not an episode of CSI. These are real people and a viewer knows when to feel and what to feel. We don't need a sound track that competes. We need to hear the PEOPLE and the INFORMATION.
I had to mute the sound to just get through it after a point. Beverly Lynn Smith, RIP.