PLEASE NOTE: there is a major difference between the scale with which modern movies are being judged and the "classics scale" with which the...well...good ones are being judged.

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in the heat of the night (jewison, 1967)

a well done, powerful film; necessary in 1966, but ultimately a less important version of poitier's other gem in '67: guess who's coming to dinner. i'm shocked that either of these won best picture (figured they'd split votes), nonetheless the (far) inferior of the two. but still very, very, very good.

classics scale: 7/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061811/

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